parrot-fashion 
adverb British
Without thought or understanding; mechanically: she repeated the phrase parrot-fashion...
- Officials repeated parrot-fashion to us that it wasn't possible to predict but we couldn't believe they were saying it.
- I am not anti-American - the easy glib retort by that is repeated parrot-fashion whenever one raises these issues - no, I love America, and I hate to see what this wretched war is doing to its people.
- The tales described how they could be heard ‘murmuring’ to one another, and how, parrot-fashion, they repeated back words spoken to them.
Synonyms
mechanically, by rote, mindlessly, without thinking, unthinkingly, automatically
- millenarism
- millenarist
- millenary
- millenianism
- millennial
- decomposition
- decompress
- decompression
- decompression chamber
- decompression sickness
- decompressor
- decondition
- deconditioned
- deconditioning
- deconflict
- deconfliction
- decongest
- decongestant
- decongestion
- deconsecrate
- deconsecration
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- deconstructionism
- deconstructionist