[
US
/ˈsɫævɪʃɫi/
]
[ UK /slˈeɪvɪʃli/ ]
[ UK /slˈeɪvɪʃli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a slavish manner
his followers slavishly believed in his new diet
How To Use slavishly In A Sentence
- You uncultured rubes probably think that having a vast army of servants slavishly waiting on you hand and foot is some great luxury.
- Though uneven and a bit inchoate, it shows an awareness both of the more complex, radical aspects of Debussy and the Strauss of Salome and Elektra, without being slavishly imitative of either.
- You don't need to stick slavishly to the recipe.
- Not slavishly or fanatically (as a compulsive overeater with a daily reprieve, I don't do well with fads and tangents). Victoria Moran: Veg and the City: The Life Changing Effects of a Raw Food Diet
- It did not classify plants in quite the most slavishly simple manner.
- We acknowledge the glamour and modernity of eating and drinking in American cities by slavishly imitating them in ours.
- The results are a stunning mix of surprisingly wearable garments that develop, rather than slavishly follow, current trends.
- The framers of the American Constitution believed that under a system of direct election the president would become slavishly responsive to popular passions.
- While Today was obviously the industry standard, the editors didn't slavishly follow its format or style.
- In explaining the term ward heeler, you described a heeler as “derived from a dog that a master brings to heel,” used to describe “a minor politician who slavishly followed his ward leader.” No Uncertain Terms