Once known as apelike barbarians, the Irish were now able to show themselves as the most selfless and patriotic civil servants. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
Beer ads show men grunting like neanderthals, repeating the same word moronically, and generally reveling in a kind of apelike idiocy. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Slater: Do you have to be Dumb to be a Man?] Reference
They were apelike creatures as bestial as the Elenoin. From Wordnik.com. [The Vanishing Tower]
He walked erect, with no apelike bending at the waist. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
Those who say this resemble the apelike creatures in 2001. From Wordnik.com. [Jillian Burt: Grinderman is the First Great Band of the Anthropocene Epoch] Reference
It was a girl, and no dumpy, apelike Yuetshi woman either. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Freebooter]
His nose was very stubby, and his entire face was decidedly apelike. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation] Reference
He spied a big orange apelike creature wearing a placard saying UTAN. From Wordnik.com. [Yon Ill Wind]
In the morning I saw that he was a hunchback, with long, apelike arms. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
The newcomer was a powerful, apelike man in a striped seaman's jersey. From Wordnik.com. [Golden State] Reference
There, Dainyl studied the shambling apelike figure, caught in midstride. From Wordnik.com. [Alector's Choice]
A clubbed and apelike fist smote the old man above one ear, and he crumpled. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Fearless]
Man's earliest direct ancestors looked more apelike than previously believed. From Wordnik.com. [Why American conservatives should support friendly relations with Hell] Reference
The newcomer was stooped, almost apelike in posture, and barely four feet tall. From Wordnik.com. [The Kinslayer Wars]
And Tracker had become something demonic, vaguely apelike yet certainly much more. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose]
Ardi's apelike feet raise the question: Was she evolving toward walking on two legs?. From Wordnik.com. [Catch a Pithecus by the Toe] Reference
"We do not necessarily become more apelike or more primitive as we go back in time.". From Wordnik.com. [Catch a Pithecus by the Toe] Reference
Ariakas punched with all his fury, driving his fist into the apelike face of his foe. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
This is Lucy, an Australopithecus, more apelike than modern humans, but getting there. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Edge: Finding Our Inner Fish] Reference
It is difficult for us to realize how utterly degenerate and apelike these pygmies are. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
His apelike appearance was further enhanced by his thick neck, barrel chest, and short legs. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
Yet Lyrelee was right'there was something inherently nonaggressive in the apelike humanoids. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
Darwin stated humans evolved from apelike beings, not apes like the creationists claim he said. From Wordnik.com. ["Creation" Producer: Theory of Evolution Too Provocative for America?] Reference
There was no hair anywhere else on the enormous skull, and the apelike jaw was smooth and pink. From Wordnik.com. [The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein]
Try telling your 8-year-old that he can't have his prized "Goldar," one of Repulsa's apelike thugs. From Wordnik.com. [Ninja Turtles, Eat Our Dust] Reference
Kamahl remembered Seaton clearly, his huge, apelike brow and his fierce protective streak for his home. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
Seton roared and sprang, his apelike features furious as he raised his mace and swung at a caravan guard. From Wordnik.com. [Odyssey]
The druid's face was discolored, the apelike features splotched with what looked like blue-and-black dye. From Wordnik.com. [Odyssey]
Those obscene, apelike creatures were friendly with the cyclopes and unlikely to want anything Chuntha could supply. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Indomitable]
Dr. SUSAN LARSON (Anatomist, Stony Brook University): The next stage was something not modern humanlike, nor apelike. From Wordnik.com. [Armed And Deadly: Shoulder, Weapons Key To Hunt] Reference
Ardi's apelike big toe could be used to grasp branches, but her rigid foot bones may mean she also walked on two legs. From Wordnik.com. [Catch a Pithecus by the Toe] Reference
The eyes were sunken under brows at once apelike and fishlike and the face extruded out more snout or gill-like than nose. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
It was very much like the creatures he had read about in ancient manuscripts: bipedal like a man, but with long, apelike arms; reptilian. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Demonkeeping]
It was very much like the creatures he had read about in ancient manuscripts: bipedal like a man, but with long, apelike arms; reptili-an. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Demonkeeping]
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