parrot-fashion

British  

adverb

1. informal without regard for meaning; by rote

   she learned it parrot-fashion

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Example Sentences

And never to repeat, parrot-fashion, anything I am told by anyone posing as a figure of authority.

From Reuters • Apr. 30, 2010

Others at once took up the cry, and the phrase w'as repeated, parrot-fashion, again and again, with an ever-growing volume of sound, until, by the seventh or eighth reiteration, no other word was being spoken.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

His job at the cathedral in Arezzo was to train the young choristers, and he’d calculated that teaching them the whole of the Church’s plainsong repertoire by ear, parrot-fashion, would take over ten years.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

"Oh, it was simply marvellous!" repeated Juliette in parrot-fashion, as, standing before a mirror, she rearranged a rebellious curl.

From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile

On this account, and to ascertain whether the child merely performed parrot-fashion, the company were especially anxious to hear the forbidden reading.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton