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Few ever hold the concert platform after their apishness has outgrown its disarming garb of knee britches and Dutch cuts.

From Time Magazine Archive

What divorces, or what not worse than that, would daily happen were not the converse between a man and his wife supported and cherished by flattery, apishness, gentleness, ignorance, dissembling, certain retainers of mine also!

From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John

Nay, so far is he from the affectation of being accounted wise, that he is content, all the rights of devotion which are paid unto him should consist of apishness and drollery.

From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Erasmus, Desiderius

Shakespeare gives us a hint of the matter when he makes Portia ridicule the apishness of the English.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph

The tiger was there, the parrot, the hare, the goat of course, and certainly much apishness.

From Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance by Pater, Walter