Definition of Slavish

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Definition of Slavish
	Slavish Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great. Related Definitions: As, Dependance, Great, Laborious, Life, Of, On, Or, Pertaining, Servile, Slave, Slavish, Such, The, To

Slavish Quotations

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

O imitators, you slavish herd!
Horace

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
Anne Edwards

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.
Kim Il-sung

Slavish Translations

slavish in French is servile
slavish in German is sklavisch, sklavisch, sklavischen
slavish in Spanish is servil

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