imitative
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Mr. Theroux is deliciously dyspeptic, and he describes present-day books of travel as “lazy and imitative, celebrating the encroaching triviality of popular culture, or else unreadable for their flatulence and frivolity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“I didn’t want to do a movie that was imitative of something else.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
The research also details potential breakthroughs in specific areas, including pump-jet propulsion and internal quieting devices, based on "imitative innovation" of Russian technology.
From Reuters ● Oct. 9, 2023
But those efforts, like so many film adaptations before them, distill essentially only the basic ingredients of their stage sources — plot, character, music — and as a result feel more imitative than transformative.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
Too eager, too anxious—an imitative and unoriginal pupil.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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