imitative
adjective
imitatively
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a word derived from
imitative.
Example Sentences
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Dozens of other churches in the area have imitatively organized their own small study groups.
From Time Magazine Archive
The opening stanza is a dedicatory address on English models to a lawyer friend and patron; it is pure English in language, stiff and imitatively “literary” in style.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
Except for the fact that Julius was immature, probably under five years of age, it is likely that he would have stacked the boxes spontaneously instead of by suggestion from the experimenter or imitatively.
From The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes A Study of Ideational Behavior by Robert M. Yerkes
And yet perchance your forest apes would shrink From Smoke-room chat of apes who never think, But cackle imitatively all round, Till their speech hath an automatic sound.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 1, 1892 by Various
She echoed his rich guttural imitatively and laughed as she drew in a deep breath of the damp air.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson
