Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An action or behavior like that of a monkey.

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Examples

  • Numerous passages of this kind might be quoted, attacking the "monkeyism" and "parrotism" of those who indiscriminately adopted foreign manners and customs -- those who

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • The product, at the end of the day, is a very literary, heavy on style monkeyism, story which might just have a thin sheen of SF patina on it.

    How Can Science Fiction Magazines Be Successful in the Digital Age? 2008

  • Before touching a single head, Fowler noted the Chinese custom of sitting on haunches instead of on chairs, a practice that he viewed as simian in nature: it “evinces a state of civilization quite inferior to our own,” he wrote, and bordered on “monkeyism.”

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • 'Quite shocking!' responded her admirer, a bottle-nosed specimen of monkeyism.

    City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

  • The agility with which they climbed up their pyramidical nest was perfectly astonishing; and when the nimblest of them arrived at the top, the perfect state of confusion which seemed to pervade the whole community, and the continuance and fervour with which they were stopped and addressed by those who had escaped the mishap, were the monkeyism and perplexity of man truthful to a degree.

    A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

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