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What does slavish mean?

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Adjective
  1. in the manner of a slave; abject
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The perception appears to be that I am such a slavish adherent of the letter of the law that I do not grasp the spirit of it.
However, more recent jurisprudence demonstrates a judicial resistance towards slavish adherence to that rule.
Over the course of the week I spent with Marcon, I was drawn into the slavish drudge work that haute cuisine demands.
It is rather pitiful that Cork hospitals are being so slavish in considering following the lead set down by Dublin.
Only the British public, with our slavish devotion to high-street spending, hold the key.
Bacon emphasized that this ordeal of experiment was to be heroic testing, not the torture of a slavish and submissive victim.

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