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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 Read, Opie Percival

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 Zweig, Stefan