Example Sentences

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The youth regards me with monkeyish curiosity for a second, and then looks round at the crowd and giggles.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas

He grinned at her—a wicked, monkeyish grin, and threw open the door, disclosing a steep and winding stone stair.

From The Obstacle Race by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

—Good evening, gentlemen, said the stubble-grown monkeyish face.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James

“He, he, he!” laughed his lordship, putting his handkerchief to his mouth, and bending down in his chair to laugh with all the enjoyment of a schoolboy at Tom’s monkeyish trick.

From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville

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