parrotry

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noun

Thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition.

First used 18th c.Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounparrotry (usually uncountable, plural parrotries)

plural parrotries

  1. 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 3
    1 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

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