apish
Example Sentences
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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
If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
From The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Goble, Warwick
