How to Use monkish in a Sentence

monkish

adjective

• The women shimmered in sequins and the men wore monkish mullets — short in the front, long in the back, shaved around the ears.
  — New York Times, 16 Oct. 2021
• So Jimmy wants to prevent James from going down the monkish path that will lead to his breakthroughs.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Apr. 2020
• Bender had a monkish devotion to his work, and to Trump, who became his sole client.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 8 May 2020
• When a tone finally booms out, a monkish man is looking on in wonder—the icon painter Andrei Rublev.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• Every day from roughly 10 until 1, Pullman sits at his desk in a monkish study at the top of the house and produces three pages, longhand.
  — Sophie Elmhirst, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• Neither of its two principal artist figures, the antic bell-founder and the monkish painter, can elude the cold eyes of earthly authority.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
• That same summer a monkish figure appeared in the two versions of Picasso’s The Three Musicians.
  — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
• But the big pitch on the Dark Side turns out to be: Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stand patiently in a quiet room wearing something monkish!
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• With un-monkish mischief, Dhammaloka mailed a hoax obituary of himself to a newspaper in Calcutta, which was published.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2020
• The Luhring Augustine exhibition presents an artist whose name has become almost synonymous with his single-minded dedication to the act of painting—and with, as an aspect of this, his stringent, monkish work habits.
  — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021
• The Luhring Augustine exhibition presents an artist whose name has become almost synonymous with his single-minded dedication to the act of painting—and with, as an aspect of this, his stringent, monkish work habits.
  — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021
• Maintaining a decade-long vow of silence takes monkish dedication and a certain stamina, and Justice Thomas has no modern competition.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2016
• Because of his avoidance of publicity and his reportedly monkish immersion in the music, Petrenko has acquired a cultish mystique.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• The cheeseburger was comparatively a more monkish affair.
  — Bud Kennedy matthew Martinez robert Philpot steve Wilson eric Zarate, star-telegram, 21 Sep. 2017
• The 1991 beat-’em up is notorious for its difficulty, requiring superhuman reflexes and monkish levels of patience.
  — Gieson Cacho, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024