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Example sentences for: slavish

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“Dictionary definitions are not always helpful to the court, and slavish adherence to these should be avoided if the result is to frustrate the intention of the legislation,” he said.
An editorial in Sunday's International Herald Tribune , headlined "Britain's Slavish Devotion to America," claims that Britain's tendency to ally itself so closely with the United States reflects the country's inability to reconcile itself with Europe.
They do not demand slavish devotion.
In truth, with the exception of 13-year-old girls, there is no social subspecies more slavish to fashion, more terrified of originality and more devoted to group-think.
There are occasional hidden entries, as the list of diseases—among them the dread mohogus —under the entry for Fowlenzia . (In the VERBATIM family, some suffer from Fowler's pip , an affliction affecting language fanatics who base a slavish purism on a literal interpretation of Modern English Usage .)