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Discover Ludwig"pale imitation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You might use it when you want to express disappointment in a person or thing, generally because the person or thing is a poor or inadequate copy of something else. For example, you might say "The movie was a pale imitation of the book it was based on."
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It is no pale imitation.
But it's a pale imitation.
"It's a pale imitation," he says.
The Tour de Yorkshire is "just a feeble, pale imitation".
Putin, fortunately, is a very pale imitation of his hero.
The American "Coupling" is just a pale imitation.
Our recently invented substitutes are a serviceable but pale imitation.
His populism is dismissed as a pale imitation of Mr Thaksin's dynamic ideas.
Every beer-soaked summer rock festival is merely a pale imitation.
This pale imitation of what the rest of us take for granted is patently failing.
The idea that they would want a pale imitation of an English show is nonsense".
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