Meanings
plural parrotries
- uncountableusuallyThoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition.First known use 18th c.
This sentiment is so lugged into every debate, that it has degenerated into mere parrotry.
1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman, number 31 more example
The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].
1986, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Heinemann, published 2005, page 2
Origin
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