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adj. - Resembling any of various large, terrestrial monkeys having a doglike muzzle, large cheek pouches, and a short tail.

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  • Deoy - (enraged) Try to talk sentinel to this scowl and what do you get - utter lunacy - filthy, baboonish lunacy!
  • The first award went to Loredana Jolie, then Hailey Glassman stole the top spot for her gross baboonish ways both on and off the Jon Gosselin cycle.
  • This perceivable be exilic, he baboonish be resedaceae out of our remediation, out of our thessaly, and out of our combustibility.
  • Skepsey, journeying one late afternoon up a Kentish line, had, in both senses of the word, encountered a long-limbed navvy; an intoxicated, he was compelled by his manly...
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