parrot-fashion

adverb

1. informal.
   without regard for meaning; by rote

   she learned it parrot-fashion

Example Sentences

He took it promptly, and proceeded to crack and munch it in regular parrot fashion.

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Miss Sawyer had always told them to learn the odes understandingly, not in parrot fashion.

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He repeated the words parrot fashion and his feet obeyed the instructions automatically.

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This phrase proceeded from Tom, who kept on repeating it, parrot-fashion—an exact imitation, but with no idea of its meaning.

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Anything convincing or appealing about it had gone long ago—Toddles said it parrot-fashion now.

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