0 present participle of ape
1 to copy something or someone badly and unsuccessfully:
He called the new building unoriginal and said that it merely aped the classical traditions.
By aping the discourse of nineteenth-century materialistic science, it acted out its hidden tensions, exaggerating them into unresolvable paradoxes.
But it e could also be a case of more upmarket resorts aping an older fad for staged animal fights.
I do not want to see more women aping the least attractive characteristics of men.
People who envisage aping such a system and say that they are trying to help the poor will only hurt the poor.
Now it might be said that the universities are aping polytechnics with their growing interest in part-time and non-traditional students.
It is a strange irony that when the polytechnics were set up many people criticised their approach and said that they were aping universities.
I want to say something about the serious position that we are currently in, and which we got ourselves into by aping what was done in 1996.
Will he agree with me that too many television presenters, especially of programmes for young children, seem to court meretricious popularity by aping the accents and slovenliness of the incoherent?
