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noun copy of a thing ADJ. accurate, good, passable | cheap, crude, pale, poor Accept no cheap imitations of our product! Their version of jazz funk is a pale imitation of the real thing. act of copying sth ADJ. faithful, slavish | direct Children are seen as learning to write by direct imitation of adult models. PREP. in ~ of The poems, some in imitation of Ossian, are graceful if unremarkable. copy of sb's speech/behaviour ADJ. fair, good, passable | poor VERB + IMITATION do, give, perform He does a very good imitation of George W. Bush.
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