What is "monkeyish"

Usage examples of "monkeyish".

The runt he had addressed turned on him a wizened, monkeyish face in which pale blue eyes regarded him blankly.

I saw, upsidedown, the two little creatures to whom I had entrusted my fate, children of eight or ten years of age at the most, who, with little monkeyish faces, had, however, fully developed muscles, like miniature men, and were already as skilful as regular old salts.

With monkeyish antics, she even deems it her duty to threaten the lanterns and shake her fist at these inextricably tangled strings which have the presumption to delay us.

But how is it that their charm vanishes so rapidly and is so quickly replaced by the elderly grimace, the smiling ugliness, the monkeyish face?

She was as plain as reported, with a rather monkeyish face and bulbous eyes.

Her hair is silver blonde, she is tall, lithe, prim in appearance except for a mouth of monkeyish sensuality, and a bizarrely rapid, wide smile.

For too long she had kept him from feeling the afternoon sun on his pert, monkeyish face.

He was making a long spring, his scrawny arms above his head forming an oval frame for his grinning monkeyish face.

Thepretty hair and tight body sparred with a monkeyish face the camera wouldsavage.

Yet there is pity, too, excited by the spectacle of the little cripple sawing away, his face proud and sombre despite its monkeyish shape and the mass of crinkly hair working loose over his wrinkled brow.

But turning to her child to still his crying, she saw the tiny exquisite hands waving in rage and the dark down rumpled on the monkeyish little skull, and the black eyes in which all the beauty and high temper that were afterwards to be Richard were condensed, and she ran to him.