slavish

IPA: sɫˈeɪvɪʃ

Examples of "slavish" in Sentences

I do not dare to call slavish that which is royal.
This is what we call slavish devotion to The One. ...
Well the word slavish, you might know, means submissive.
One must either be white or turn on one’s own race in slavish support of whites.
Dutch justice minister Piet Hein Donner is what one can call a slavish democrat.
You don't trouble about my being what you call slavish when it's you that profits by it!
What I AM saying is that it is foolish to maintain slavish adherence to “principle” if that adherence results in bad ends.
But I should add that I’m a big believer in teaching children and anyone who’s just learning to write in English slavish adherence to grammatical rules.
It was scarcely surprising that the cholera should spread rapidly, for fear is its powerful auxiliary, and the Cruces people bowed down before the plague in slavish despair.
At present, so slavish is the attitude of nearly the whole British press that ordinary people have very little idea of what is happening, and may well be committed to policies which they will repudiate in five years time.