Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who merely repeats what has been learned by rote; one who servilely adopts the language or opinions of others.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who simply repeats what he has heard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who mindlessly
repeats what he or she has heard.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is also safer: He will never risk losing his life like Terry Loyd, or Anna Politkovskaya -he is much too valuable as a parroter of the official story line.
Think Progress » Chris Wallace Ignores 20,000 Emails Demanding He Ask Rice About The U.S.S. Cole 2006
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While I often remind everyone because almost no one else does that professional anti-evolutionists are anything but clueless, I had no problem assuming that Coulter was indeed just a clueless parroter.
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Boynton, as always, is a mere parroter of conventional phrases, and the objections of the ladies fade imperceptibly into a pious indignation which is indistinguishable from that of the professional suppressors of vice.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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4, Nick Robinson is little more than a parroter of government lines or a stater of the blindingly obvious.
politicalbetting.com 2008
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10 "Nick Robinson is little more than a parroter of government lines .."
politicalbetting.com 2008
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10 "Nick Robinson is little more than a parroter of government lines .."
politicalbetting.com 2008
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4, Nick Robinson is little more than a parroter of government lines or a stater of the blindingly obvious.
politicalbetting.com 2008
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