slavish
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Slavish
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | of or befitting a slave |
| 2. | being or resembling a slave; servile |
| 3. | unoriginal; imitative |
| 4. | archaic ignoble |
| 'slavishly | |
| —adv | |
| 'slavishness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
The only point in the new effort is slavish dedication to the principle of past success.
The people expect positive reform out of us, not slavish subservience to special interests.
The word finance is a slavish word, unknown in the city-state.
Economics is less a slavish creed than a prism through which to understand the world.
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