monkeyish
- a word derived from monkey.
Example Sentences
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—Good evening, gentlemen, said the stubble-grown monkeyish face.
From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James
It makes us smile to see birds, like the magpie, with a mania for this collecting—but only monkeyish beings could reverence museums as we do, and pile such heterogeneous trifles and quantities in them.
From This Simian World by Day, Clarence
It makes us smile to see birds, like the magpie, with a mania for this collecting--but only monkeyish beings could reverence museums as we do, and pile such heterogeneous trifles and quantities in them.
From This Simian World by Day, Clarence
Sir George Jessel is subtle and acute, but he is rude, overbearing, and coarse; he has the sneer of a Mephistopheles, mingled with a curious monkeyish pleasure in inflicting pain.
From Autobiographical Sketches by Besant, Annie Wood
The musical crew were all much frightened, and tried to bail out the ugly water, but it rose too fast, and soon the monkeyish boat began to sink.
From Cricket at the Seashore by Richards, Harriet Roosevelt
