Being or given to servile imitation.
1 His neck and shoulders were brutal, like those of some apish god.
2 They are the most apish people I could ever have imagined.
3 First of all, he is exceedingly given to little apish tricks and buffooneries.
4 And his voice was as fearful, hoarse, bestial, with apish gibberings.
5 The distorted yellow dwarfs seemed to gibe apish before me.
6 Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.
7 This could not be relaxed, for he was full of the most apish tricks.
8 Here there is a mixture of apish imitation with vanity.
9 And why follow the apish fashions of the world?
10 How superior to the apish politeness of the towns!
11 That apish - looking man there, with the long beard and the loose trousers-heis the woman's brother.
12 He had long since discovered the apish propensity for mimicry and learned to make use of it.
13 All Paris was one vast Temple of Hero-worship; though their Divinity, moreover, was of feature too apish .
14 But what cannot be carried- acathedral , amonument ,anancient window-thatis destroyed with an apish zest.
15 Thus he remained stale in his garments, sweaty in his accoutrements, with dirty hands and an apish face.
16 There is a very plain line of demarcation between the legitimate spirit of inquiry and mere apish curiosity.
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