apish

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

We have always been rather apish in France: the Grecian, Roman and biblical tragedies which every day now brings forth are innumerable.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various