monkish
adjective
of, relating to, or resembling a monk.
monkishly
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a word derived from
monkish.
Example Sentences
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After he’s finished, he’ll crash monkishly on a mattress in the living room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
In surgery, hair is removed from the back of a patient's head – where it continues to grow even on monkishly bald men – by one of two techniques.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 5, 2011
He was arrayed in an old dressing-gown, with a rope tied monkishly about his loins.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Opie Percival Read
Towns monkishly secluded, girt with ponderous mediæval walls, towns on whose swart and sedgy canals lonely swans glide like milky gondolas, towns like a dream, strengthless, prisoned in sleep eternal.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig
