Definitions
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- adjective Similar to an
ape in appearance or movement. - adjective Given to
servile imitation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling apes
- adjective being or given to servile imitation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Once known as apelike barbarians, the Irish were now able to show themselves as the most selfless and patriotic civil servants.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Beer ads show men grunting like neanderthals, repeating the same word moronically, and generally reveling in a kind of apelike idiocy.
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Third, they agree that one of these interventions was the creation of humans, who could not have evolved from apelike ancestors.
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Yet they also talked constantly about how, if the apelike human male were molded correctly by them, could become more female, and therefore more human, then they, the women in my childhood sphere, could then rest well, assured that their Frankenstein monster would dutifully support them in the manner in which they wished to live.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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No, not all ID proponents agree that humans couldn't have evolved from apelike ancestors.
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Yet they also talked constantly about how, if the apelike human male were molded correctly by them, could become more female, and therefore more human, then they, the women in my childhood sphere, could then rest well, assured that their Frankenstein monster would dutifully support them in the manner in which they wished to live.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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But one of the mowing, apelike travesties emitted a wild shriek of madness, and Koolau waited while the shrill cachination was tossed back and forth among the rocky walls and echoed distantly through the pulseless night.
Koolau the Leper 2010
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Yet they also talked constantly about how, if the apelike human male were molded correctly by them, could become more female, and therefore more human, then they, the women in my childhood sphere, could then rest well, assured that their Frankenstein monster would dutifully support them in the manner in which they wished to live.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Yet she could not shake off the instinctive fear that arose in her — man's inheritance from the wild and howling ages when his hairy, apelike prototype was afraid of the dark and personified the elements into things of fear.
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To this triple-A club, allow me to add a “B”—Bigfoot, the apelike creature who walks upright like a man.
Releasing Your Inner Bigfoot Con Chapman 2011
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