parroting
鹦鹉学舌
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Definitions
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- : any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
- : a person who, without thought or understanding, merely repeats the words or imitates the actions of another.
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- : to repeat or imitate without thought or understanding.
- : to teach to repeat or imitate in such a fashion.
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Examples
This requires not just teaching to the test and not just parroting critiques.
Over there, “journalists,” such as they are, literally survive by parroting the government.
Some of what they said sounded like a rhetorical, if earnest, parroting of notions they'd heard from teachers.
They are parroting the old party line that always puts special interests ahead of the national interest.
Parroting another government line, the article raises the specter of a Russian intervention if postelection unrest flares.
One of my draft is killed and five wounded and here everyone is parroting about a Merry Christmas.
That statement was made and I think it was—he was probably parroting somebody else that made the statement previously.
Later he put it into Altrurian, and I memorized it, and made myself immensely popular by parroting it.
The mere intonation of words unaccompanied by a strict knowledge of "that dumb, silent language," Pantomime, is only parroting.
"My translator is working badly," the voice of the elder was parroting.