Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
babery , 1. - noun A collection of baboons.
- noun Baboonish conduct or condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Baboonish behavior.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Baboonish behavior. (Marryat).
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Examples
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That Bolshevism was foul baboonery was obvious to any but the most ardent and simple socialist utopian.
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Whilst the baboonery of fascism skipped and capered in Germany, Italy.
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Compare the surgeon's grace inherent in Gosford Park to the soused baboonery of Prêt-à-Porter (1994), and you glimpse a restless and conflicted intelligence plunging into the combat of cultural intercourse without the benefit of superego.
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Briggs came across as a seemingly opportunistic and somewhat ineffectual politician, but regardless of his baboonery, the issue that he and his supporters tapped into -- "gay teachers" -- was volatile enough to find large-scale support among the electorate.
Rob Epstein: What Harvey Milk Tells Us About Proposition 8 2008
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And the fact that women anywhere are willing to dignify such baboonery with a response infuriates me.
What's That Got To Do With the Price of an Intact Hymen in China? Heo 2006
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This 'bloody baboonery', as the communists called the highly publicized police performance, was preceded by inspired press reports of evidence - more sensational than the notorious Zinoviev letter, - of a revolutionary plot directed from Moscow to prepare the way for the black republic.
Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 18 Ray Esther 1969
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As far as many people are concerned your brand of loony left wing tribal politics is just as corrosive and harmful as the EDL's baboonery.
The Guardian World News Seumas Milne 2011
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As far as many people are concerned your brand of loony left wing tribal politics is just as corrosive and harmful as the EDL's baboonery.
The Guardian World News Seumas Milne 2011
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You smiled with satisfaction when you saw how great the improvement was that baboonery had made toward manhood.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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Whilst the baboonery of fascism skipped and capered in Germany, Italy.
Professor Strange admin 2010
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