Did you perchance mean snakelike?
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- slave + -like (Wiktionary)
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“The Huffington Post may be carrying a piece with a different emphasis which is perfectly fine, but this one is about the slavelike devotion of the corporate media to the storylines being spun by right wing operative Drudge on his site.”
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“One presumes that the Lamonts did so because of Walmart being profitable to their stockholders, those willing to make a buck off the suffering of slavelike sweat shops in third world countries and conditions, and the erosion of American worker's jobs ... all of which come from the same business practices that Lamont publicly blasted this week.”
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“In defense of his order to nationalize, the government cited the positive role of the steel workers in opposing the coup, the ‘slavelike’ work conditions and the export strategies, which denied the domestic construction industry the steel it needed for highpriority homebuilding.”
“Today's slaves may not be bought, sold or tortured in the public square, like those in "Roots" or "Amistad," but experts with the Protection Project, an anti-trafficking program at Johns Hopkins University, estimate that 1 million undocumented immigrants are currently trapped here in slavelike conditions.”
“According to them, the choices are between a free-enterprise system of health care, or slavelike submission to a state-controlled system that will drag down the quality of care and eliminate all personal decisions and human dignity.”
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“Europeans and others around the world are contemptuous of America's slavelike obedience to a small foreign power.”
“The aborigines ( "Indians"), the Chinese brought here to work slavelike on railroad construction, and the "Negroes" shipped from Africa to provide low-cost or no-cost labor for the northern industries and southern plantations, were not part of the plan.”
“Trapped in slavelike conditions, they're forced into sex, sweatshop labor, and domestic servitude.”
“Cults usually require total, slavelike devotion to the group or the group leader.”
“Well, Bernado, we wouldn't want anyone to have to work in slavelike conditions.”
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