Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Imitation without understanding or reason, after the fashion of parrots.
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Examples
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As far as I have gone, it is all desk-fancy and "book larning" -- parrotism, in short ....
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
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Numerous passages of this kind might be quoted, attacking the "monkeyism" and "parrotism" of those who indiscriminately adopted foreign manners and customs -- those who
Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880
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