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The damage done to the chosen target is negligible, but this parroty parody adds up to a near disaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'm sorry to turn you out," I said, "for there are lions around"—indeed they were roaring to each other—"and you will have a parroty time.

From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Lang, Andrew

The worst of conversation books is that one acquires a language in such a parroty way.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

His eyes, too, had grown harder, greyer, and more parroty.

From The Island Pharisees by Galsworthy, John