Example Sentences

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She was the first of her sort to confront me in England with the question whether her very intelligent comment was conscious knowledge, or mere parrotry.

From London Films by Howells, William Dean

Surely, if Christian charity did not preclude these charges, the shame of convicted parrotry ought to prevent a man from repeating and republishing them.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Let conversation displace much that passes current under the name of recitation; mostly sound and parrotry, a repeating by rote not by heart, unmeaning sounds from the memory and no more.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks