Word: pithecoid
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...People then inevitably recalled Sir William's troubles, though by that time he had long been in his grave. Nowadays Sir William is generally remembered, when he is, because he happened to be Oscar's father, or because he was, as an outraged Victorian put it, a "pithecoid person of extraordinary sensuality." Victorian Doctor attempts to give him his due as a medical man and to show the sort of person he actually was, scandal aside. T. G. Wilson, himself a prominent Dublin doctor, tells the story well, in reasonably dispassionate if sometimes long-winded detail...
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