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.
Against aping of imperialist cultural and for development of a progressive, pro-people culture.
Yet he was intolerant of a blind aping of the west in the name of progress.
In other words, they try not to be what they were previously by aping a different, heavier sound, and the resulting record's a hodgepodge.
A highly exuberant and cultural festival, this dance form usually comprises a troupe of 6 performers aping the movements of the majestic, predatory tigers.
We have learned that the allocation of a channel to ourselves would be aping for ourselves an attractiveness which we only possess at rare moments in our lives.
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?
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.
It is a strange irony that when the polytechnics were set up many people criticised their approach and said that they were aping universities.
