aping

Speech parts

1. aping - Noun

2. aping - Verb

Meaning

of Ape

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

copy impression reproduction simulation resemblance simulate parody replica copying imitation imitate mimic mock likeness emulation
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Antonyms

original natural true real actual valid
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Anagrams

ganpi ngapi

Examples

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. John Updike

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go. Jomo Kenyatta

Aping Urbanity, Oozing with Vanity Plump as a Manatee, Faking Humanity Journalistic Calamity, Intellectual Inanity Fox News Insanity, You're a profanity Hannity. John Cleese

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. Camille Paglia

Young people growing up with pressure to perform in every aspect of their lives find themselves aping a robotic capitalist eroticism that has little to do with their own legitimate desires. Laurie Penny

I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits. J Tillman

Close letter words and terms

apimaysin apinch apine apinoid apio apiocerid