monkeyed

past tense of monkey

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for monkeyed
Verb
  • But tension from within the sheriff’s office boiled over and reached the public in November 2024, when then-Chief Deputy Kevin Canty resigned, sent McFadden a harsh resignation letter and copied the entire sheriff’s office to the email.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025
  • State after state copied California’s Alien Land Law.
    Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Crucially, the scientists mimicked this process by creating an artificial neural network, and by applying a simple algorithm called gradient descent to increase the accuracy of its predictions.
    James Somers, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Manicurist Brittney Boyce, Fox's go-to nail artist, mimicked that deep red color on the star's nails—with a modern, reflective cats-eye texture.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In another photo obtained by TMZ, Matthews also mocked Perry’s headline-making photo of her kissing the ground following her return to Earth.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Elites stirred up a now familiar moral panic about commerce corrupting letters and mocked Grub Street even as its writers built the first modern freelance economy and mass-print culture.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Released in 2000, the first of the Wayans brothers’ Scary Movie franchise parodied popular horror, including Faris’ memorable spoof of Drew Barrymore’s Scream opener.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
  • In its Saturday cold open, the sketch show parodied the final New York City mayoral debate, with Miles Teller as Andrew Cuomo, Ramy Youssef as Zohran Mamdani and Shane Gillis as Curtis Sliwa.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Playing someone such as Cohn, a public and much-imitated figure, is hard enough.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Silverstone also imitated the runway look by choosing to skip a necklace.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When crew members intervened, prosecutors said, Usiripalli raised his hand in the shape of a gun, placed his fingers in his mouth, and mimed pulling the trigger.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • With his teammates crowding around him in celebration, the veteran mimed the old monkey-of-my-back motion after his first goal as a Bruin.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Monkeyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monkeyed. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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