Example Sentences

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He is trying to divest them of mere imitativeness, of the veneer and decadence of a routine civilization.

From Time Magazine Archive

The 4,925,000-circulation Daily Mirror sneered editorially at the Sun's imitativeness.

From Time Magazine Archive

If his greatest fault is his imitativeness, it is the U.S. of the past two decades that he has imitated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unlike the other theories, that one assumes as the motive force not merely passive imitativeness but an outgoing will.

From The Record of Currupira by Abernathy, Robert

So far as it was for anything and not mere imbecile imitativeness, it was for that.

From The Passionate Friends by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)