monkeyish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for monkeyish
Adjective
  • And within the prankish world created by the production, not everyone was in on the joke.
    David Renard, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • Fuchs put a prankish spin on the descending octaves that tootle above the reprise of the symphony’s solemn opening.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • That revelation—learning that uncontrollable crying wasn’t her personality but neurological damage—became another layer of self-compassion.
    Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 10 Oct. 2025
  • These friends act as social insurance systems for each other, helping each other when needs arise because of unpredictable and uncontrollable events.
    Athena Aktipis, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Wells could be playful, knavish, and his tone here is one of urgency and optimism about the distribution of information.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2021
  • The same people who are now telling us that only Republican-voting obscurantists, ignorant deplorables and knavish right-wing media pundits are raising doubts about the vaccine would have been oozing skepticism.
    Gerard Baker, WSJ, 12 July 2021
Adjective
  • Nearly 25 years later, North is just as bad as Ebert wrote, an astoundingly wrongheaded concept executed in the most mealy-mouthed, limp way possible.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Or were the Arabs in Palestine done in again and again by inflexible, wrongheaded, venal, and corrupt leadership?
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • And the first person viewers saw on-screen this week was Patterson’s fellow newcomer Jeremy Culhane—a fresh face to those who have never encountered social-media clips of his impish appearances on the niche comedy streamer Dropout.
    Erik Adams, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The impish Reeves brings puppy-dog codependence to the scruffy Estragon, who leans on Vladimir as his body and memory fail him.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The waggish jeer that subverts the Reich Chancellery, designed by Adolf Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, must have sent the woman who chastises children for flatulent folly into a tizzy.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • After publishing a New York Times piece about grieving her late husband, the waggish writer received an email from a kindly old acquaintance who was also recently widowed.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The text is excitable and wayward, while many of the photographs are dramatically dull.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Nelson encountered a first Monday afternoon at KeyBank Center when he was cut on the left wrist by a wayward skate.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The timing alongside Muttaqi’s visit to India—Pakistan’s arch-rival—underscores the complex India-Afghanistan-Pakistan geopolitics at play.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The anti-odor insole delivers cushioning and arch support for all-day comfort.
    Nora Colomer may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Monkeyish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monkeyish. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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