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Meanings of slavish in English
Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant.
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Usage of slavish in English
1
The fear surely is not that of shivering dread or slavish terror.
2
Yet in such loyalty there was no trace of a slavish spirit.
3
Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion.
4
Mother imagines that I am the slavish echo of my brother Victor.
5
She has dared to impose slavish tasks upon thee, born in freedom.
6
O how I hate it, this service, and the whole slavish life.
7
Despite all its slavish superstition, the Saxon Church was obnoxious to Rome.
8
They were taking too slavish an attitude toward Goniface and his judgments.
9
They seem to think there is no course open but slavish submission.
10
And let no man fancy that such submission shows a slavish spirit.
11
An' I reckon ye've done sought right slavish ter make amends ternight.
12
There is no art in the slavish copying of persons in real life.
13
But, in general, Collins is much less slavish than Warton in his imitation.
14
In the latter case, religion will be slavish and submission sullen.
15
Popova fawned upon the Governor-General, and seemed slavish in his devotion.
16
Treason and cowardice alone stir up The sullen currents of their slavish souls.
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