Usually means: Imitating others foolishly or playfully.
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  1. apishly: Merriam-Webster
  2. apishly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apishly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. apishly: Vocabulary.com
  5. apishly: Wordnik
  6. apishly: Wiktionary
  7. Apishly, apishly: Dictionary.com
  8. Apishly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. apishly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Apishly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. apishly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. apishly: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Apishly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (apishly)

▸ adverb:  In an apish manner; in the manner of an ape.

Similar:
monkeyishly, apomorphically, apagogically, papishly, pawkily, Aesopically, aporematically, anthropomorphously, asininely, apoplectically, more...

Opposite:
intelligently, cleverly, astutely, shrewdly, sagaciously

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Similar:
monkeyishly, apomorphically, apagogically, papishly, pawkily, Aesopically, aporematically, anthropomorphously, asininely, apoplectically, more...

Opposite:
intelligently, cleverly, astutely, shrewdly, sagaciously



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