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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ey-pish |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈeɪ pɪʃ |
Définition of apish
- adj affected
- This could not be relaxed, for he was full of the most apish tricks.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- To the west the apish Atlanteans are beginning the long climb upward.
- Extract from : « The Hyborian Age » by Robert E. Howard
- They got noisy, cheered every apish witticism of the lecturer—oh!
- Extract from : « A Lost Cause » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
- Do you see how it imitates the divine in an apish sort of way?
- Extract from : « Carmen Ariza » by Charles Francis Stocking
- His neck and shoulders were brutal, like those of some apish god.
- Extract from : « The Man Who Was Thursday » by G. K. Chesterton
- Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.
- Extract from : « Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus » by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
- Neither the squalid Picts nor the apish Atlanteans have any contact with other tribes or peoples.
- Extract from : « The Hyborian Age » by Robert E. Howard
- But this apish monkey fashion of effeminate niceness, out upon it!
- Extract from : « The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys. » by Thomas Dekker
- At fifteen or sixteen, she affected, both in dress and manners, to ape such of the quality as were most apish.
- Extract from : « Clarissa Harlowe, Volume 9 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- The Negro, apish in his affinity to his prototype in a "lynching bee," is beneath contempt.
- Extract from : « Shadow and Light » by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
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