SLAVISH in a Sentence

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1. He was deeply, even slavishly, devout.
2. He saw it, and his face expressed that utter subjection, that slavish devotion, which had done so much to win her.
3. I had a sickly dread, too, of being ridiculous, and so had a slavish passion for the conventional in everything external.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLAVISH
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slavish
 a.  blindly imitative; characteristic of a slave or servant
Classic Sentence:
1  She remembered the ball, remembered Vronsky and his face of slavish adoration, remembered all her conduct with him: there was nothing shameful.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
2  He saw it, and his face expressed that utter subjection, that slavish devotion, which had done so much to win her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
3  No doubt there are slavish women as well as slavish men; and women, like men, admire those that are stronger than themselves.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
4  I had a sickly dread, too, of being ridiculous, and so had a slavish passion for the conventional in everything external.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
5  He was deeply, even slavishly, devout.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
6  When Yeobright was not with Eustacia he was sitting slavishly over his books; when he was not reading he was meeting her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
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