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
His theory began to evolve when he noticed a distinction between anthropoid and apish mimicry: children can imitate such actions as shaving and shooting without using razors or guns; but apes cannot, or do not.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is while the apish comedian is stamping around making chests and defiantly crying: "I'm a machador, I'm a machador!" that his real opponent, a large fat steer, cautiously muzzles up to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Renouncing all these frivolous manners, all these theatrical caricatures of our times, let us be more sincere; less of courtiers, more serious, more reflective, and less apish.
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
