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slavish

How to use slavish in a sentence

The whole movement reached nothing beyond a slavish imitation of Giotto and his immediate followers.

For she remembered now that but for their slavish devotion they might claim to be her equal.

She would not save him to live the toilsome, slavish life of the Jews.

FAIR TO LOOK UPONMARY BELLE FREELEY

All this goes in, and yet the book cannot be a slavish repeat.

While confidence in his own abilities freed him from a slavish adherence to facts which could serve no useful purpose.

The temper of the Parliament had drifted far from the slavish subservience which it showed at the close of Henry's reign.

I would not abuse it by impudent license on the one hand, nor by slavish superstition on the other.

Mrs. Cannon, I regret it, but we must have a revolution in this here slavish, this here degraded country!

But that I scorn To rust my good sword in thy slavish blood, Thou now wert dead.

The few free-minded resist this will, when it is in opposition to their own, and the slavish many submit.

HOW TO OBSERVEHARRIET MARTINEAU

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985