simious
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Philosophy shows us 'twixt monkey and man One simious line in unbroken extendage; Development only since first it began— And chiefly in losing the caudal appendage.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Here was native talent forming a channel for itself, in which perhaps it had better run freely, exercising originality, than labour with imitative and simious toil at the manufacture of ideal Art-Alepots.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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