What's the difference between copycat and unoriginal?

Copycat


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) The CIA sent a cable to its foreign stations warning of possible copycat incidents.
  • (2) Pegida marches and copycat events in other cities attracted thousands of people, but they were vastly outnumbered by tens of thousands of counter-demonstrators insisting Germany is a multicultural country that welcomes immigrants.
  • (3) Their story involves a fraudster who posed as their builder, set up a copycat email address and even managed to mock up an incredibly realistic fake invoice.
  • (4) But like BBC1’s The Voice - since lost to ITV - one person’s distinctiveness is another person’s copycat.
  • (5) The English riots were described as a tidal wave of copycat disorder that swept across towns and cities with uncanny repetition.
  • (6) She said the measures in SB2305, the copycat bill similar to the one being challenged by the CRR in Mississippi , were unnecessary, because the RRWC had a safety record above the national average.
  • (7) His tips include avoiding copycat shows, keeping it authentic, getting the casting right with lots of personalities and heroes, and incorporating emotion.
  • (8) The Norway attacks have raised concerns copycat operations may take place in Europe .
  • (9) The primary goal here is to reassert the rule of law and try to avoid copycat occupations,” said David Hayes, a visiting lecturer at Stanford Law School and former deputy secretary of the US Department of the Interior.
  • (10) "Most of those who were involved were arrested and it stopped any further copycat rioting."
  • (11) Danish intelligence services have suggested the fatal Copenhagen shooting of a film-maker at a freedom-of-speech debate and a Jewish security guard at a synagogue may have been a copycat of last month’s Paris attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.
  • (12) However, this attack is later revealed to be no copycat operation and one that had been months and probably years in the planning.
  • (13) · Meanwhile, don't respond too harshly if coverage of the election, or of anything else for that matter, is a bit sparse in the New York Times, since the entire staff at the paper's head office in Manhattan seem to have been completely distracted from their work by two stuntmen climbing their new skyscraper - the famous French "urban climber" Alain Robert, and a copycat.
  • (14) "My criticism of the Met police is the message that this sent out and it was the fundamental cause of copycat violence in a number of other cities."
  • (15) Denmark’s spy chief, Jens Madsen, said the gunman – who was known to police because of past violence, gang-related activities and possession of weapons – had perhaps been trying to stage a copycat attack of the three days of bloody mayhem in Paris last month, which began with a massacre of cartoonists and others at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and ended in a murderous siege at a kosher supermarket.
  • (16) The Global Times newspaper described the incidents as "plotted copycats" of the riots in Lhasa in March 2008.
  • (17) "I don't think Bristol really does copycat riots, I think we tend to start the riots.
  • (18) "Years of mass production and copycat trends have created a huge yearning for truly personal style and looks, without the boundaries of supposed perfection."
  • (19) Italians fearful of copycat Chinese imports killing off demand for their prized homegrown delicacies have added another culinary touchstone to the danger list: the chestnut.
  • (20) Officials at the government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) said under-reporting of incidents involving female abusers was a concern and warned that "copycat" abusers may attempt to replicate the abuse that took place at Plymouth's Little Ted's nursery, where George worked.

Unoriginal


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But in terms of policy his team’s thinking was either unoriginal recasting of the Labour manifesto or too micro to have much impact.
  • (2) And in Italy, the FTSE MIB has fallen by 540 points to 15391, down 3.3% Investors have raced for the safety of the US dollar ( so unoriginal ), pushing the euro down to $1.284.
  • (3) Fulham's following was tiny and quiet at the start and smaller and even quieter when they were losing 6-0 … TV montage music for the season's highlights Unoriginal I know, but in the circumstances: Que Sera Sera – Doris Day.
  • (4) It is a genre dominated by the thoroughly unoriginal notion that you cannot trust the government.
  • (5) The call to join the establishment once you have made it – in most cases, using all the socialist advantages of the postwar consensus, such as free health, free education and social housing – is sadly unoriginal.
  • (6) But when I ask if the trust means that BBC drama is unambitious or unoriginal, he is quick to counter.
  • (7) Freeman Dyson, the physicist, captured the full range of academic sentiment in this dry appraisal: "This experiment is clumsy, tedious, unoriginal.
  • (8) This is an unoriginal way of visualising the old antisemitic charge that Jews are all-powerful.
  • (9) With the knowledge of that history, it would have been a shock to JFK to hear another inaugural address declaring, “America First.” The dark pessimism and conspiracism of Trump’s speech are unoriginal with him.
  • (10) The copycat unoriginality of building London's Eiffel verges on parody when one realises that the Orbit will be 100m shorter than the Parisian monument and 20m shorter than the diminutive Blackpool Tower.
  • (11) Kind commentators called his work derivative and unoriginal.
  • (12) Whatever you think of his music – and there are oft-repeated accusations of creative unoriginality, the sense that his songs are little more than hyped-up elevator musack – it has enjoyed remarkable longevity.

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