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Parrotlike

adjective
1.
Mechanically imitated or repeated without thought or understanding.  "A voice quality sounding parrotlike"





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"Parrotlike" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lantier was as much her husband as was Coupeau—that he was the father of two of her children. She talked a little twaddle about the laws of nature, and a shrewd observer would have seen that she—parrotlike—was repeating the words that some other person had put into her mouth. Besides, what were her neighbors doing all about her? They were not so extremely respectable that they had the right to attack her. And then ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... had achieved smartness; the Figaro had printed his name twice. And with his meager neck sticking up between the turndown points of his collar and his figure squeezed into all too short a coat, he would swagger about, uttering his parrotlike exclamations and affecting a solemn listlessness suggestive of an emotionless marionette. He so annoyed Nana that she ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola


Words linked to "Parrotlike" :   imitative


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