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Definition of slavishly in English: slavishlyadverb ˈsleɪvɪʃ(ə)liˈsleɪvɪʃli 1In a servile or submissive manner. he slavishly followed the party line rules that must be slavishly obeyed whatever the circumstances Example sentencesExamples - His story reinforced a stereotype of these people as inhuman, mindless drones who slavishly serve their emperor.
- She slavishly clutched the sleeve of her aunt's kimono.
- Hardly any foreign visitors are allowed—only aid workers whose movements are tightly monitored, and those who slavishly praise a regime that has defied history.
- His grown daughter and his ex-brother-in-law slavishly run the estate for him.
- She is the slavishly adoring but unsightly would-be lover in his godforsaken garrison town.
- He was slavishly devoted to a plane tree, as if the tree was something to be wondered at.
- When he stepped down from the rostrum at the end of his speech, he sat next to the deputy leader of the party, his most slavishly subservient follower.
- The entire crew worked slavishly night after night, and given the results, it shows.
- During the Reagan years, the news media began to slavishly follow the dictates of the White House.
- To the right sits a somnolent, patently oblivious Buddha-like man, slavishly attended by scantily clad concubines.
- 1.1 In a way that shows no attempt at originality.
they adhere slavishly to a script written for them children slavishly copy their football heroes Example sentencesExamples - He isn't weighed down by the responsibility of adhering too slavishly to their melodic core.
- For some musicians, punk was less a style to be slavishly imitated than the sound of a door opening.
- The group is so slavishly imitative that it has not even noticed that the US tax year starts on January 1, but the New Zealand one starts on April 1.
- If he does not slavishly copy appearances, there is no brag in his brush, no need to impress with his gifts.
- I want a manager to have the freedom to select stocks, not slavishly follow the index.
- Flattering as it may be to our egos, the Japanese don't always slavishly ape our tastes in entertainment.
- Among her pet hates are what she describes as 'transient fashion', 'fashion victims', and slavishly following what celebrities are wearing.
- Instead of slavishly copying the current trend or concept, why not try to do things a little differently?
- The restaurants here are either dull and conservative or slavishly derivative in an almost adolescent way, without the wherewithal to carry it off.
- There's no need for him to slavishly ape Hitchcock to be a great film-maker.
Definition of slavishly in US English: slavishlyadverbˈsleɪvɪʃliˈslāviSHlē 1In a servile or submissive manner. he slavishly followed the party line rules that must be slavishly obeyed whatever the circumstances Example sentencesExamples - To the right sits a somnolent, patently oblivious Buddha-like man, slavishly attended by scantily clad concubines.
- During the Reagan years, the news media began to slavishly follow the dictates of the White House.
- His grown daughter and his ex-brother-in-law slavishly run the estate for him.
- The entire crew worked slavishly night after night, and given the results, it shows.
- Hardly any foreign visitors are allowed—only aid workers whose movements are tightly monitored, and those who slavishly praise a regime that has defied history.
- When he stepped down from the rostrum at the end of his speech, he sat next to the deputy leader of the party, his most slavishly subservient follower.
- His story reinforced a stereotype of these people as inhuman, mindless drones who slavishly serve their emperor.
- She slavishly clutched the sleeve of her aunt's kimono.
- He was slavishly devoted to a plane tree, as if the tree was something to be wondered at.
- She is the slavishly adoring but unsightly would-be lover in his godforsaken garrison town.
- 1.1 In a way that shows no attempt at originality.
they adhere slavishly to a script written for them they slavishly copy one another Example sentencesExamples - He isn't weighed down by the responsibility of adhering too slavishly to their melodic core.
- Flattering as it may be to our egos, the Japanese don't always slavishly ape our tastes in entertainment.
- For some musicians, punk was less a style to be slavishly imitated than the sound of a door opening.
- The restaurants here are either dull and conservative or slavishly derivative in an almost adolescent way, without the wherewithal to carry it off.
- Instead of slavishly copying the current trend or concept, why not try to do things a little differently?
- There's no need for him to slavishly ape Hitchcock to be a great film-maker.
- Among her pet hates are what she describes as 'transient fashion', 'fashion victims', and slavishly following what celebrities are wearing.
- The group is so slavishly imitative that it has not even noticed that the US tax year starts on January 1, but the New Zealand one starts on April 1.
- I want a manager to have the freedom to select stocks, not slavishly follow the index.
- If he does not slavishly copy appearances, there is no brag in his brush, no need to impress with his gifts.
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