How to Use slavish in a Sentence

slavish

adjective
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  • He has been criticized for his slavish devotion to the rules.
  • Stay too slavish to the original and you’re accused of a money grab.
    — Nicole Sperling, HWD, 20 Dec. 2017
  • BioWare seemingly thought that sort of slavish devotion to the stylus was a great idea.
    — Earnest Cavalli, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2008
  • Other shows that talk politics are slavish to the liberal point of view, to the point of being boring and predictable.
    — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 1 May 2018
  • How slavish should subsequent sequels and spin-offs be to the originals?
    — Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 June 2018
  • Trump, after all, was not supported these past few years by only his most slavish sycophants.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Our slavish adherence to the concept of engineering art extends far beneath the surface of the T.33's body.
    — Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Film and art writing were corrupted so long ago by slavish fixations on the box office and the auction price that it’s now hard to imagine them otherwise.
    — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Trump’s ever-slavish Vice-President managed to mention him thirty-three times in his thirty-six-minute speech.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2020
  • In fact, a slavish devotion to our devices has come to feel like a practical necessity.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Second, many believe this slavish devotion to history to be deeply flawed.
    — Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
  • These are not slavish recreations; Caro has added her own touch to the scenes, slightly tweaking some, while others are more significantly altered.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2020
  • Republicans, who poured in millions of dollars in ads against Mr. Lamb, tried to paint him as a slavish follower of the California Democrat.
    — Michael Tackett and Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
  • That his friend was Princess Lee Radziwill, a fixture of the high society to which Capote remained slavish, was naturally a major component.
    — Mark Peikert, Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Lotus argued that this slavish copying violated its copyrights, and the trial court agreed.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
  • But from a certain angle, Incredibles 2 looks a little too slavish to creaky conventions.
    — Richard Lawson, HWD, 11 June 2018
  • Affleck plays Phil’s contradictions — the man’s simultaneous slavish devotion to the bottom line and obsession with Buddhism — as one of the film’s running jokes.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2023
  • If this massive population is being made miserable by a slavish devotion to in-boxes and chat channels, then this adds up to a whole lot of global miserableness!
    — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Having written a series of slavish articles attacking the media’s coverage of Trump, Wolff was given unfettered access to the White House.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
  • But what’s interesting is that in a party whose devotion to Trump has been nothing short of slavish, DeSantis has been the only figure willing to step forward to challenge Trump’s positions.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2022
  • That point is not that Republican tax policy is motivated by a slavish devotion to the interests of rich people.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 17 Oct. 2017
  • That Miller manages to make such a funny, fully dimensional impression as Barry Allen, better known as the Flash, is no mean feat given the movie’s slavish devotion to nostalgic fan service.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 June 2023
  • His mock recreation of a 1992 ski film, using all period equipment, is a time-warp masterpiece that makes explicit points about slavish commitment to contemporary styles.
    — Chuck Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2019
  • The fact that it is now being retold in a slavish re-creation of a fairly recent film, complete with massive marketing tie-ins and a shameless confidence that people will pay to see basically the same movie again, is, yes, cynical.
    — Katey Rich, VanityFair.com, 20 Mar. 2017
  • The most extreme Trump supporters will love the idea, but most independents and even some Republicans will conclude that the Republican Party no longer has any policies other than the slavish worshiping of one man.
    — WSJ, 9 May 2021
  • Well, that Rudolph Giuliani is a distant memory to many, obscured by his conspiracy mongering and slavish devotion to Donald Trump.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 8 June 2022
  • Brady sees these membership contributions as vital to sustaining not just the financial needs of local news but to avoid the slavish devotion to digital ad sales as a sole revenue stream with its race to the bottom need for clickbait content.
    — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • One of the wittier details in DeMonaco’s functional, largely generic script finds the slavish TV news anchors frustrated by the purge’s relatively sluggish start.
    — Michael Phillips, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
  • What had struck me there was the finesse with which her firm modernized a nearly century-old Beaux-Arts mansion without resorting to the extremes of slavish reproduction or ostentatious contrast.
    — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Twitter’s design also promotes a slavish devotion to metrics: Every tweet comes with a counter of Likes and Retweets, and users come to internalize these metrics as proxies for real-world popularity.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 31 May 2017

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