apery
Americannoun
plural
aperies-
apish behavior; mimicry.
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a silly trick.
noun
Etymology
Origin of apery
Example Sentences
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It is a pallid apery of the academic comedies that the English, frankly, do better.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was nothing original as yet discoverable in him; nothing to deliver him from the poor imitative apery in which he imagined himself a poet.
From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George
I saw there many women, dressed without regard to the season or the demands of the place, in apery, or, as it looked, in mockery, of European fashions.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret
It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.
From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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