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slavishly /ˈsleɪvɪʃ(ə)li /adverb1In a servile or submissive manner: he slavishly followed the party line rules that must be slavishly obeyed whatever the circumstances...- His grown daughter and his ex-brother-in-law slavishly run the estate for him.
- His story reinforced a stereotype of these people as inhuman, mindless drones who slavishly serve their emperor.
- To the right sits a somnolent, patently oblivious Buddha-like man, slavishly attended by scantily clad concubines.
1.1In a way that shows no attempt at originality: they adhere slavishly to a script written for them children slavishly copy their football heroes...- I want a manager to have the freedom to select stocks, not slavishly follow the index.
- 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.
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