imitation

There are Egyptian influences and an imitation Hindu temple.

As if, after all the above, one would want anything that reeked of lifeless imitation.

If imitation is the highest form of flattery, this is high praise.

The very faculty of language is, to a large extent, a matter of imitation.

It used to be that we said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

The Spaniards since have substituted paper for the leaves of maize, in imitation of them.

The culture of expression is a very different thing from the artful imitation of the signs of feeling and purpose.

Impersonation may be more easily achieved intellectually, requiring only keen observation and the power of imitation.

Imitation of the ways of their elders doubtless plays a part here, but it is aided by an instinct for adornment.

Like art, too, on its representative side, play aims at producing an imitation or semblance of something.