Definitions

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  • adjective Similar to a monkey
  • adjective Similar to that of a monkey; as, a monkeylike skull, monkeylike curiosity
  • adverb In the manner of a monkey

Etymologies

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monkey +‎ -like

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Examples

  • She watched tall, pale elves, as thin as slivers of moonlight, glide across branches, and she saw monkeylike and catlike men and women scurry among them.

    Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

  • She watched tall, pale elves, as thin as slivers of moonlight, glide across branches, and she saw monkeylike and catlike men and women scurry among them.

    Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

  • She watched tall, pale elves, as thin as slivers of moonlight, glide across branches, and she saw monkeylike and catlike men and women scurry among them.

    Enchanted Ivy Sarah Beth Durst 2010

  • There were few left who even knew him by the name his shipmates had given him for his monkeylike propensity to swing through the sheets and lines.

    Aching for Always Gwyn Cready 2010

  • He uttered a monkeylike hoot-hoot and let his arms dangle.

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • He uttered a monkeylike hoot-hoot and let his arms dangle.

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • This proved to be true; she negotiated sideways through the door, beaming, a loaded tray in one hand, the other wrapped round Henri-Christian, who clung to her, monkeylike.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • Écot flung herself at him, burying her face against his chest, slender limbs clinging to him monkeylike.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

  • Claire Danes once told me, basking in the warm afterglow of monkeylike sexual congress, There will be those who are jealous of your enormous talent, emphasis on the enormous.

    Y.P.R.: Critics, Shmritics 2002

  • Proconsul had monkeylike hands and feet, but it was not built for hanging in trees.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

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