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apish

[ey-pish] / ˈeɪ pɪʃ /
ADJECTIVE
affected
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The shoulders were apish too, and the widely flaring blades of the pelvis were as primitive as Lucy’s—but the bottom of the same pelvis looked like a modern human’s.

From National Geographic • Sep. 10, 2015

According to evolutionary theorists , we probably owe these unsavory blemishes to our having lost our apish pelts too rapidly for our own good.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2011

To a god the wisdom/of the wisest man/sounds apish.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pithecanthropus erectus, the Javanese oldster regarded by most authorities as a very apish man, is called an apeman.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is the graceful, brilliant, apish Ariel or Puck of the society whose Mirandas and Titanias are Julie and Manon Lescaut; he is the page of the French eighteenth century.

From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Lee, Vernon




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