What is "slavish"

Usage examples of "slavish".

With Brahminism the religion lost its original and natural character, and became characterized by a slavish submission to a priesthood, which abrogated the truly human.

May air, Ressler understands that this work, the lookup tablethat rung of the hierarchy linking the life principle with slavish molecular mechanicswill, the minute it is published, be turned to further work, extrapolated, taken farther afield than he can now guess.

He was going to save the country, save the world, in spite of its slavish ingrained genuflection to oversweetened dreck.

Now, was it not the depth of absurdity - of genuine idiotcy, for that pitiful, slavish, mean-minded brach to dream that I could love her?

Your slavish yearnings seem disgusting and truly insolent, and you show a gracelessness in bruiting them about.

Neither is there anything that hurteth the common sort of our artificers more than haste, and a barbarous or slavish desire to turn the penny, and, by ridding their work, to make speedy utterance of their wares: which enforceth them to bungle up and despatch many things they care not how so they be out of their hands, whereby the buyer is often sore defrauded, and findeth to his cost that haste maketh waste, according to the proverb.

The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but - doubtless because they are afraid someone will some day raise the ever-unpleasant question of the true worth of things - they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.

The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but—doubtless because they are afraid someone will someday raise the ever-unpleasant question, of the true worth of things—they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.

The muzhiks still act slavish and frightened, even though they are no longer anyone's property.

Leiber's correspondence with Lovecraft is interesting in that of all of Lovecraft's correspondents only Leiber seemed immune to the desire to begin banging out slavish pastiches of the mythos created by the elder writer.

Gluttons that they are, they'll arrange your partner's death, or your boyfriend's slavish devotion, or maybe just some premature promotions in your career, all in exchange for the thrill of tasting human nastiness and degradation.

But it is silly to talk of title to a cat, and Randie felt that Betty Lou was his personal slave, available at all hours to scratch his skull, cuddle him, and open doors for him, a conviction she supported by her slavish obedience to his tiniest whim.

If you would be consul, you must watch, run about, kiss hands, be wearied down with waiting at the doors of others, must say and do many slavish things, send gifts to many, daily presents to some.

Trolls conferenced in the darkest corners, elves engaged in slavish banter, and something like a squashed sphinx limped slowly past on all four legs, complaining mightily to an attentive retinue of sylphs whose sleek flesh jiggled like tapioca pudding.

He felt in her an unyieldingness that allowed her to be obedient yet never slavish.