Meanings of passable imitation in English

Captain Smug does a passable imitation of a doctor humouring a lunatic.

Then sighed and smiled in a passable imitation of good humor.

For once he gave a passable imitation of the Englishman.

There was even a passable imitation of a green goose.

Mace leaned on his shovel and did a passable imitation.

And laughing suddenly, Diarmuid replied, "Utter frivolity," in a passable imitation of his brother.

It squeaked and squawked a good deal, but it made a very passable imitation of "Mam-ma-Mam-ma.

Then her eyes twinkled as she favored her companion with a passable imitation of her father's didactic tone and manner.

Richard could do a passable imitation of the Murch's signature, for example, and an excellent version of his housemaster's handwriting and signature.

I want her to leave it off, and let the Family discover her romantically enjoying some passable imitation of her Secret World.

She managed him tenderly, and became, in less than a year, a very passable imitation of an English lady in dress and carriage.

The Thurles pitch making a passable imitation of a summer ground and Waterford and Tipperary setting about each other like it really mattered.

It was a tune they had all heard hundreds of times, so there was no difficulty in turning out a passable imitation of it.

In Stefano Okaka they have someone who can do a passable imitation of their captain but they lacked a player who offers a tactical alternative.

"One has to live and learn," she remarked, with a passable imitation of her father's manner.

"He's been drunk as a junkyard skunk all this week," said Jim Harlen in a passable imitation of Mrs. Cooke's Okie twang.