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slavish

/sley-vish/US // ˈsleɪ vɪʃ //UK // (ˈsleɪvɪʃ) //

奴性的,奴隶式的,奴性,奴隶制

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or befitting a slave: slavish subjection.
    • : being or resembling a slave; abjectly submissive: He was slavish in his obedience.
    • : base; mean; ignoble: slavish fears.
    • : deliberately imitative; lacking originality: a slavish reproduction.

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Examples

  • DC Comics uses a slavish adherence to the status quo to prevent anything socially progressive from taking place on its pages.

  • She must whitewash these brown men and women, rid them of their savage, slavish ways, and repaint them in her own image.

  • Zaks had to find the delicate poise between vivid restating and slavish reenactment.

  • This is a lie, and only the most slavish of Russian propagandists are claiming otherwise.

  • His recent opus, “Distorting Russia,” will go down in history as one of the most slavish defenses of Putinism.

  • The whole movement reached nothing beyond a slavish imitation of Giotto and his immediate followers.

  • For she remembered now that but for their slavish devotion they might claim to be her equal.

  • She would not save him to live the toilsome, slavish life of the Jews.

  • All this goes in, and yet the book cannot be a slavish repeat.

  • While confidence in his own abilities freed him from a slavish adherence to facts which could serve no useful purpose.