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He came shuffling forward with a hundred apish conges and chers milors, to express his happiness at seeing Lord Dalgarno again.
THE FORTUNES OF NIGELSIR WALTER SCOTTHe was broadly built, with long apish arms and a mighty chest, but with lean loins and thin bandy legs.
THE DEVIL IN IRONROBERT E. HOWARDVanity and the desire of showing off play no small part in the wrongdoings of apes and apish men and women.
THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT OF ANIMALSEDMUND P. EVANSThat apish-looking man there, with the long beard and the loose trousers—he is the woman's brother.
BARCHESTER TOWERSANTHONY TROLLOPEEven Plutarch himself laments his daughter for the little apish tricks of her infancy.
THE ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE, COMPLETEMICHEL DE MONTAIGNEWhen Henry perceived the apish minion thus upon his track he burst out into a laugh.
HORSE-SHOE ROBINSONJOHN PENDLETON KENNEDYFirst of all, he is exceedingly given to little apish tricks and buffooneries.
ESSAYS AND TALESJOSEPH ADDISONAt six o'clock I saw him start, his apish feet padding through the crusted slush.
LADYSMITHH. W. NEVINSONThe fool drew nearer to her, eagerly, apish curiosity goading him.
THE PROUD PRINCEJUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHYTo the west the apish Atlanteans are beginning the long climb upward.
THE HYBORIAN AGEROBERT E. HOWARDWORDS RELATED TO APISH
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- high falutin'
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
- apish
- artificial
- assumed
- awkward
- campy
- chichi
- conceited
- contrived
- counterfeit
- counterfeited
- faked
- false
- feigned
- fraud
- gone Hollywood
- ham
- hammy
- high falutin'
- hollow
- imitated
- insincere
- mannered
- melodramatic
- ostentatious
- overdone
- pedantic
- phony
- playacting
- pompous
- precious
- pretended
- pretentious
- put-on
- schmaltzy
- self-conscious
- shallow
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- stiff
- stilted
- studied
- superficial
- theatrical
- unnatural
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