Example sentences for: slavish

How can you use “slavish” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The hit movie Swingers paid slavish tribute to Sinatra lounge culture.

  • 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.

  • One by one they have all come back, licensed frivolities rather than slavish concessions to the male beholder.

  • “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.

  • 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 .)


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