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- adverb In the manner of a
parrot ; withthoughtless repetition of what others have said.
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Examples
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After all, only someone irrefutably sane can make a brief, mediocre sex joke at Doogie Howser after a week of parrot-fashion rehearsals, right?
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Another antisemitic meme repeated parrot-fashion without any basis in international law or any moral authority.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Niun repeated this information parrot-fashion and when he looked up his face was clearer.
Elric of Melnibone Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1972
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Anything convincing or appealing about it had gone long ago -- Toddles said it parrot-fashion now.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews
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This phrase proceeded from Tom, who kept on repeating it, parrot-fashion -- an exact imitation, but with no idea of its meaning.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various
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As you study its pages, be sure to find out the meaning of every word in them which you do not understand; for, if you let your tongue say what your mind knows nothing about, you are talking _parrot-fashion_.
Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City Sarah F. Buckelew
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A dirty old school where he had heard them reciting, parrot-fashion, on the one or two occasions that he had ridden past there, reciting things that could mean little to them.
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948
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A dirty old school where he had heard them reciting, parrot-fashion, on the one or two occasions that he had ridden past there, reciting things that could mean little to them.
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948
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A dirty old school where he had heard them reciting, parrot-fashion, on the one or two occasions that he had ridden past there, reciting things that could mean little to them.
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948
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A dirty old school where he had heard them reciting, parrot-fashion, on the one or two occasions that he had ridden past there, reciting things that could mean little to them.
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton 1948
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