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  1. slavelike love

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Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Resembling a slave, or resembling conditions of slavery

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. suitable for a slave or servant

Etymologies

  1. slave +‎ -like (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “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.”

    But Did Elizabeth Edwards Really Accuse Hillary Of "Behaving Like A Man"?

  • “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.”

    CT-SEN: Will Lieberman Really Stick To Plan To Run As Independent?

  • “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.”

    Pelosi's First Primary Opponent Since She's Been An Incumbent is Number One On Act Blue... and a Lesbian.

  • “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.”

    Newsweek: Slavery's New Face

  • “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.”

    Jesse Larner: Michael Moore and National Health Care: Lies of the Left and the Right

  • “Europeans and others around the world are contemptuous of America's slavelike obedience to a small foreign power.”

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  • “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.”

    The U.S. Tower of Babel

  • “Trapped in slavelike conditions, they're forced into sex, sweatshop labor, and domestic servitude.”

    CNN Transcript May 18, 2004

  • “Cults usually require total, slavelike devotion to the group or the group leader.”

    Simon & Schuster: CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE

  • “Well, Bernado, we wouldn't want anyone to have to work in slavelike conditions.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2003

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