A mere parrotlike word-calling process. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Most of these, with their definitions, parrotlike, I had learned to spell, but never once in all my school experience had I been taught the derivation of a single word. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
One of its claws might easily have slashed the eyes from his face, but its trembling claws, so like clenched fists, remained raised to either side of its parrotlike beak. From Wordnik.com. [The Drawing of the Three]
The head was round, with a parrotlike beak, tympani for hearing, one large golden-hued eye in the middle and two smaller, less developed ones for binocular and peripheral vision. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Yet a strange sort of pride seems to have been taken in the capacity of children to imbibe such gloomy theological theories and in the ability to repeat, parrotlike, the oft-repeated doctrines of inherent sinfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Life in Colonial Days] Reference
Edway Tarnhorst had been dictating notes for his reports into his recorder, and was rather tired, so when he asked Peter Danley what he had learned, he was rather irritated when the blond man closed his blue eyes and repeated, parrotlike. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
"In this place?" asked Ersten, with parrotlike perfection. From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress] Reference
The old woman speaks rapidly, parrotlike, sighing and sobbing. From Wordnik.com. [The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution] Reference
He knew his clay, the day labourer, with his parrotlike mentality. From Wordnik.com. [The Drums of Jeopardy] Reference
"He's jest stunned; that's all!" added Mike, with his kindly, parrotlike repetition. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
Depending on the delivery, this tactic is either rhetorically effective or parrotlike. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2] Reference
Psittacosis is a rare infectious disease that affects parrotlike birds but can include pigeons. From Wordnik.com. [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference
He folded his arms upon his breast, and in a sing-song voice, curiously unlike any other I had ever heard, answered parrotlike. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Named Smith] Reference
Almost, limitedly in online dating chat were all the parrotlike swagman chordomesoderm up implicitly, two convexity excogitative hot fealty cars manikin enviably go on prothorax. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
She talked a little twaddle about the laws of nature, and a shrewd observer would have seen that she -- parrotlike -- was repeating the words that some other person had put into her mouth. From Wordnik.com. [L'Assommoir] Reference
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