Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who merely repeats what has been learned by rote; one who servilely adopts the language or opinions of others.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare One who simply repeats what he has heard.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who mindlessly repeats what he or she has heard.

Etymologies

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From parrot + -er

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Examples

  • It is also safer: He will never risk losing his life like Terry Loyd, or Anna Politkovskaya -he is much too valuable as a parroter of the official story line.

    Think Progress » Chris Wallace Ignores 20,000 Emails Demanding He Ask Rice About The U.S.S. Cole 2006

  • While I often remind everyone because almost no one else does that professional anti-evolutionists are anything but clueless, I had no problem assuming that Coulter was indeed just a clueless parroter.

    Ann Coulter: Clueless - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Boynton, as always, is a mere parroter of conventional phrases, and the objections of the ladies fade imperceptibly into a pious indignation which is indistinguishable from that of the professional suppressors of vice.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • 4, Nick Robinson is little more than a parroter of government lines or a stater of the blindingly obvious.

    politicalbetting.com 2008

  • 10 "Nick Robinson is little more than a parroter of government lines .."

    politicalbetting.com 2008

  • 10 "Nick Robinson is little more than a parroter of government lines .."

    politicalbetting.com 2008

  • 4, Nick Robinson is little more than a parroter of government lines or a stater of the blindingly obvious.

    politicalbetting.com 2008

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