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US
/ˈsɫævɪʃɫi/
]
[ UK /slˈeɪvɪʃli/ ]
[ UK /slˈeɪvɪʃli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a slavish manner
his followers slavishly believed in his new diet
How To Use slavishly In A Sentence
- Oh! -- to the really 'consecrate' in heart and thought I could give my life so easily, so slavishly even! Marcella
- We should listen to expert advice, but to slavishly follow it on every occasion defies logic.
- Everything else in the novel slavishly follows a simple formulaic adventure plot.
- We know from grim experience that footballers slavishly follow the lead of their manager.
- his followers slavishly believed in his new diet
- At a time when much of his work was slavishly adulated, they caught his eye and appealed to his own sense of independence. Fanzine The End anthology is Liverpool's best-selling Christmas book
- The people on both sides who slavishly follow the ideology WITHOUT remembering the humanity of those who believe differently only succeed in dehumanizing their opponants. Nancy Reagan illuminates Kennedy-Reagan friendship
- CoffeeGeek: what you'd expect, a nanopublishing venture slavishly devoted to discussing the minutae of the bean in mind-numbing, exuberant detail. Boing Boing: May 11, 2003 - May 17, 2003 Archives
- Was this the MSM, craven as ever, slavishly following the lead of the artistocracy - those who decide which frauds and daubs, which slabs of self-obsessed upper-middle-class logorrhea - constitute Art and Literature? Tony Hendra: George Carlin: The Last Words You Can't Say on Television
- Oddly, there's a sense that some current contenders are simply slavishly imitating their post-punk forebears.