Example sentences for: slavishly

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

  • But as I slavishly grind away at the keyboard coding my assigned arcana, I often observe my neuronic (or is it neurotic?)

  • Of course, I'd rather have Africana than not, but did they have to be so slavishly politically correct and populist?

  • Even Japan’s disaffected youth, normally sporting dyed hair, nose-rings, and torn T-shirts (and whatever else constitutes the latest street fashions to be slavishly copied), will attend an important festival in an expensive traditional costume, perhaps indicating that, despite their parents’ concerns about their superficial appearance, some old values have not been entirely abandoned.

  • (If you want my advice, settle on one large dictionary as a standard and look up any compounds it contains, following it slavishly: your writing is more important than whether vice president has a hyphen or not.

  • The Post said it was "difficult to fathom why the US seems slavishly attached to a policy [toward Iraq], built upon 'containment' and UN inspections, that is doomed to failure," when it should be supporting this "viable democratic alternative to Saddam" as "a strategic and moral imperative."


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