Someone who's slavish is either overly meek and obedient or copies someone else instead of thinking for themselves. If you write your story in the style of Ernest Hemingway, your English teacher may accuse you of slavish imitation.
Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious;
Adjective S.
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"
Adjective S.
blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"
a.
Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a
slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish
dependance on the great.
Slavish
Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious;
Usage Examples
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
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Other Usage ExamplesIf men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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