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Slavish

//ˈsleɪvɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    In the manner of a slave; abject.

    "“You have freed them from higher restraint, Halbert,” answered the Abbot, “and therein taught them to rebel against your own.” / “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”"

  2. 2
    Utterly faithful; totally lacking originality, creativity, or reflection.

    "a slavish reproduction"

Adjective
  1. 1
    abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant wordnet
  2. 2
    blindly imitative wordnet

Etymology

From slave + -ish.

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