Ape and Silly

Ape

Ape noun - Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.

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Silly and ape are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Silly" instead an adjective "Ape".

Silly adjective - Lacking in seriousness or maturity.

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Ape and silly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ape" instead an adjective "Silly".

Nearby Word: silliness

The original Mighty Crusaders series of the mid-1960s is this: Hokey stories, bland attempts by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel to ape the Stan Lee style, and silly over-exaggeration of the very Marvel-style story concepts that they were aiming for.

Source: So Bad Its Good / Comic Books
Shift the Ape, from the last The Chronicles of Narnia book The Last Battle, cooks up a cartoonishly silly Paper-Thin Disguise scheme to con his way into assuming Aslan's authority (which actually works), then conspires to take over Narnia with the help of the Calormen Empire.

Source: Big Bad Wannabe

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