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A hero who is apishly alpha or beatifically beta?

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2018

"Get a good dinner into you, lad, and then come and talk to me," he said, putting a great paw on my shoulder, and leering apishly.

From The Man Who Drove the Car by Pemberton, Max, Sir