But now he parroted with unconscious irony the phrases he had once so admired.

Obligingly she parroted over to Fibsy the lingo of the message.

Joe, under his breath, parroted the words of the Sov officer.

"Don't do anything you'd be sorry for," he parroted, sarcastical, the young man's recent admonition to the captain.

Lorry pulled her eyes down to the cherubic little face as she parroted dully.

"Prosecution agrees to accept the present court," Goodham parroted.

Here is an old one whose sentiments have been often parroted by unthinking humans of modern times.