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Slavish meaning
In the manner of a slave; abject. | Utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection.
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Example sentences (10)
Mann has a slavish devotion to accuracy; in interviews, he proudly touts the elements of his films that are ripped from real life.
The second is to prepare an objective and rational much overdue and sorely needed biography, not slavish hagiography and secular deification, of BB’s political life warts and all.
This name is an example of that slavish tendency, much in evidence during the centuries of Gaelic submergence, whereby good old Gaelic Irish surnames were transmogrified into common English ones having more or less the same sound.
It’s not the empty, slavish homage it could have been as Johnson knows that simply regurgitating the rules with a wink wouldn’t be enough.
Rather than trying to be a slavish follow-up to Stanley Kubrick’s inimitable is a looser, goofier trip that just so happens to wander some of the same territory that Stephen King first explored four decades ago.
Slavish conformism to conventional wisdom has done practically nothing to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel, trapping the sides in a stalemate for decades.
The Labour Dept must shoulder the responsibility for slavish working environment and conditions.
Fear is used to express a Filial or a slavish passion.
The medieval phenomenon of courtly love in all of its slavish devotion and ambivalence has been suggested by some writers to be a precursor of BDSM.
This usually occurs because of the perception that slavish attention to 'realism' will cause a game to be rejected as 'uninteresting' or boring by the mass-market.