parrotry

English

Etymology

From parrot +‎ -ry.

Noun

parrotry (usually uncountable, plural parrotries)

1. Thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition. [from 18th c.]
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman, number 3:

     This sentiment is so lugged into every debate, that it has degenerated into mere parrotry.

   • 1986, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Heinemann, published 2005, page 2:

     The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].