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Meanings of apelike in English

Resembling apes.

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Being or given to servile imitation.

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Examples for "apish"
1
His neck and shoulders were brutal, like those of some apish god.
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
2
They are the most apish people I could ever have imagined.
Adventures in Many Lands
3
First of all, he is exceedingly given to little apish tricks and buffooneries.
Essays and Tales
4
And his voice was as fearful, hoarse, bestial, with apish gibberings.
Nicanor - Teller of Tales : A Story of Roman Britain
5
The distorted yellow dwarfs seemed to gibe apish before me.
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
Usage of apelike in English
1
His arms, which dangled apelike almost to his knees, were amazingly strong.
Salem’s Lot
2
One of man's closest relatives was much more apelike than we thought.
Wired
3
The image of some hairy, stooped, apelike creatures always came to mind.
Knockemstiff
4
His nose was very stubby, and his entire face was decidedly apelike.
The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a Psychic Revelation
5
He went expertly, swinging from car to car with apelike clumsiness-andsurety.
Gunman's Reckoning
6
A long apelike arm came out and caught me by the coat lapels.
Highways in Hiding
7
Gazing into the darkness, she knew that her stare was apelike.
Hilda Lessways
8
Its apes are more apelike, and they're more imposing for it.
Wired
9
One of them was Jurgens' apelike follower, his stupid face relaxed and vacant.
Police Your Planet
10
The doctor smiled awkwardly, beginning to feel himself uncomfortably apelike.
All souls' rising
11
When conditions seemed suitable for us, when apelike creatures survived, we began the exodus.
Midnight at the well of souls
12
She seized upon the nearest and started to clamber, apelike, to the branches above.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
13
I saw frustration and rage flicker over his apelike features.
Summer knight
14
He had indeed stared at her with his apelike eyes.
Hilda Lessways
15
But could we stop with the tailed man-themanlike ape, or the apelike man?
Time and Change
16
But he managed it with the same apelike adroitness.
Gunman's Reckoning
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