If you have a hippopotamus major in your brain, you are no ape, though you had four hands, no feet, and were more apish than the apes of all aperies.
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Apery
Synonyms for "apery" (3 found)
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6 translations across 3 languages.
Finnish
4 entries- apinatarha noun (place where apes are kept)
- apinointi noun (practice of aping or an apish action)
- jäljittely noun (practice of aping or an apish action)
- matkiminen noun (practice of aping or an apish action)
Portuguese
1 entries- macaquice noun (practice of aping or an apish action)
Swedish
1 entries- apkonst noun (practice of aping or an apish action)
Sample sentences
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Every object, whether the growth of nature or the work of man, was neat and artificial. It pleased me far better, than if the houses and gardens, and pleasure fields, had been in a nobler taste: for this nobler taste would have been mere apery.
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