Definition of "apish" []

• Resembling an ape. (adjective)
• Slavishly or foolishly imitative: "My own performances were apish imitations of Olivier's stirring cadences” ( Robert Brustein). (adjective)
• Silly; outlandish. (adjective)

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• "According to Locke, dance teachers should eliminate “apish affected postures” and “the jigging part” that leads children away from “perfect graceful carriage.”"
• "A twisted and wizened complex of apish features, perforated by upturned, sky-open, Mongolian nostrils, by a mouth that sagged from a huge upper-lip and faded precipitately into a retreating chin, by peering querulous eyes that blinked as blink the eyes of denizens of monkey-cages."
• "It is a sad sad day when our only saviour against the primitive apish hordes leaves us defenceless."