apishness
- a word derived from apish.
Example Sentences
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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
Not to put too fine a point upon it, we were a tinselled lot of mimes, greatly given to apishness, and shunning naked truth as though it were the plague.
From The Message by Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew)
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
