A few conscious musical modernists probably decided that it was a bad imitation of the real thing.

I said drily: "You don't give a bad imitation of it, at times."

It is really such a bad imitation," he exclaimed at last, "that even my dog would not be taken in.

A bad imitation of that holiday tournament the Hoosiers always seem to win.

She is, at her very best, a bad imitation of a man.

Today's entire effort wasn't a bad imitation of a living, breathing work force for the Mets.

This animal is like a bad imitation of a shrimp.

You make Spock out as a puppet and a bad imitation human.

To the critics, though, it seems a bad imitation.

Kethol gave up with a bad imitation of good grace.