Words similar to slavish
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 .)