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anthropoid

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1. anthropoid - Noun

2. anthropoid - Adjective

3. anthropoid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla.

An anthropoid ape.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The big toe is the most human part of the human body, in the sense that no other element of this body is as differentiated from the corresponding element of the anthropoid ape (chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan or gibbon). Georges Bataille

Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! [...] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief. Augustine Birrell

Reading implies a use of the reflective faculty, and very few have that faculty developed much beyond the anthropoid stage, let alone possessing it at a stage of development which makes reading practicable. Albert Jay Nock

He is no God of love, no justice of a little city like Dante's Florence, no anthropoid God Making commandments: this is the God who does not care and will never cease. Robinson Jeffers

In his 1934 pageant play The Rock, Eliot distances himself from Fascist movements of the thirties by caricaturing Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, who 'firmly refuse/ To descend to palaver with anthropoid Jews'. Source: Internet

Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian (Jamie Dornan, “The Fall,” Anthropoid) and Ana (Dakota Johnson, How to Be Single, Black Mass) fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. Source: Internet

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