No theater could hold out against the laughter of apery at this sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories] Reference

The petals were so dry and apery that they crumbled at the first touch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Scroll]

It was the 1950s, in other words-that time of culture's parody and simulacrum and apery.    From Wordnik.com.  [FIRST THINGS: On the Square] Reference

'Self Preserved …' 's loose, jam-based riff colossi stand in stark relief to everyone else's doo-wop apery or sterile poptronica.    From Wordnik.com.  [NME Features] Reference

There was nothing original as yet discoverable in him; nothing to deliver him from the poor imitative apery in which he imagined himself a poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Gibbie] Reference

I saw there many women, dressed without regard to the season or the demands of the place, in apery, or, as it looked, in mockery, of European fashions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.] Reference

Aside from these occasional problems, "Wii Music's" jam mode invites and cultivates the type of creativity forsaken by "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero" in the interest of rock star apery.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Nuggets, garage rock is now a firmly planted beacon in pop music, dispensing influence and inspiring apery from countless young upstarts who impulsively pick up guitars and decide to start bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prefix] Reference

Hence the comic matter chosen in the first instance is a ridiculous imitation or apery of this constant striving after logical precision and subtle opposition of thoughts, together with a making the most of every conception or image, by expressing it under the least expected property belonging to it, and this, again, rendered specially absurd by being applied to the most current subjects and occurrences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference

Hence the comic matter chosen in the first instance is a ridiculous imitation or apery of this constant striving after logical precision, and subtle opposition of thoughts, together with a making the most of every conception or image, by expressing it under the least expected property belonging to it, and this, again, rendered specially absurd by being applied to the most current subjects and occurrences.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference

Then the young lord laughed again, and cried out, "Ha! the ox-eyed June!" or some such apery, and went and kneeled before her in mock fashion, as before a queen, and quoth he, "Fair goddess" (for 'twas afterwards explained to me what manner of being was.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales] Reference