Word: parroted
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...Ambassador to Washington, where he was scheduled to talk about a compromise on the defaulted French war debt to the U. S. Nothing ever came of that, and social Washington remembered him best for his pretty, English-speaking wife Odette, whom wags called "Oh, debt!" M. Bonnet is tall, parrot-nosed, looks like Cinemactor Ben Turpin...
...These summaries offer plots and other content in readily identifiable tabloid form, and such critical material as they include is simply are has of well-known secondary material which students will parrot at their own risk...
...parrot eats our crops"-my son interrupted my reading-"and poor parakeet gets an ill name. . . . Their bitter sorrow in North America must be the effect of a certain embargo they are removing just now in a hurry. While Brazil was the first Government to proclaim neutrality, the United States was reacting economically...
...Lewes, Del., Birdy, a parrot, died. When President Grover Cleveland first took office, Birdy was taught to shout: "Hurrah for Cleveland!" For 54 years Birdy cheered for Cleveland...
...that rather mealy-mouthed phrase, "the indefinable something that is Yale." The meaning of these six unctuous words is ephemeral and open to whatever interpretation the listener may be disposed to make; usually, for the outlander, they mean about as much as abracadabra. But to us Elis, who glibly parrot this phrase, it leaves an impression of abstract vapidity that often passes for profundity. A catchword that rolls neatly off the tongue, it is used with equanimity both for accepting praise and for repelling criticism. What, then, does it mean...