mimic men
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Post-colonial people that, through lack of ready alternatives, imitate practices of the pre-independence colonising people, maybe inappropriately.
Example Sentences
- "We pretended to be real, to be learning, to be preparing ourselves for life, we mimic men of the New World, one unknown corner of it, with all its reminders of the corruption that came so quickly to the new."
- "...even though in Trinidad and Tobago the steel band and calypso have emerged, nevertheless artistic, community and individual values are not for the most part authentic but, to borrow the language of the economist, possess a high import content, the vehicles of import being the educational system, the mass media, the films, and the tourists. V. S. Naipaul’s description of West Indians as ‘mimic men’ is harsh, but true."
- "It would also suggest that a ’mimic men’ attitude to addressing CO₂ capture and reuse, which first focusses on capturing low-purity flue-gas CO₂ emissions at the PLIE, would be probably misguided"