How do you use Slavish in a sentence? See 9 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like unoriginal or subservient, plus the exact meaning.
Slavish meaning
- In the manner of a slave; abject.
- Utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection.
Synonyms of Slavish
Using Slavish
- The main meaning on this page is: In the manner of a slave; abject. | Utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection.
- Useful related words include: unoriginal, subservient, submissive, servile.
- In the example corpus, slavish often appears in combinations such as: slavish devotion, that slavish.
Context around Slavish
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Slavish
- In this selection, "slavish" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, empty, devotion, hagiography and tendency stand out and add context to how "slavish" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include be a slavish follow up and biography not slavish hagiography and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "slavish" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with slavish
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fear is used to express a Filial or a slavish passion. (11 words)
The Labour Dept must shoulder the responsibility for slavish working environment and conditions. (13 words)
Mann has a slavish devotion to accuracy; in interviews, he proudly touts the elements of his films that are ripped from real life. (23 words)
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. (38 words)
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. (37 words)
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. (29 words)
Example sentences (9)
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.
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.
Common combinations with slavish
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: