slavish

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  1. adjective Of or characteristic of a slave or slavery; servile: Her slavish devotion to her job ruled her life.
  2. adjective Showing no originality; blindly imitative: a slavish copy of the original.

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  • Ellison's accompanying pieces are themselves artistic gems; they play off of Yerka's images without becoming slavish, they're full of Ellison's famous wit and energy, and they (like the paintings) mingle a sharp, detailed sense of vivid reality with an odd, offbeat flavor of the fantastic. —  Omni: December 1993
  • You can be bad, slavish, and stupid, but if you toe the line, your face will grace the screen. —  Piece Of Mind
  • A slavish, propaganda media whose fawning coverage (and obfuscation) belies any pretense of journalistic ethics;
  • It is all part of a Liberal plan to paint Mr. Harper as a slavish follower of unpopular U.S. President George W. Bush. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • That way they would be able to distance him from George W Bush while casting Obama as a slavish follower of the party line. —  British Blogs
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  1. = Dutch slaafsch = German sklavisch = Sw, slafvisk = Danish slavisk, slavish; as slave + -ish.
 

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/ˈsleɪvɪʃ/
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