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parrotry en · NOUN

Etymology

From parrot + -ry.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition.
   • 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:
   • This sentiment is so lugged into every debate, that it has degenerated into mere parrotry. 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman, number 3:

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