Slavish in a sentence as an adjective

This clock is a "slavish copy" of the Swiss clock, down to the weight of each element and the presence of the red hand.

They let the market leader do the R&D and then slavishly imitate their successes.

But as the author says, good ideas can be made terrible by too much slavish devotion and not enough thinking.

Win on the merits of the technology, not on slavish devotion to existing standards.

The kindle fire is obviously a lot like the iPad for the kinds of reasons usually raised, but it's not a slavish imitation of the iPad. It's not rounded in the same way.

I have pointed this out to people before too. It doesn't seem to deter their slavish adherence to what they declare to be "best practices", which seems to correspond to something they read in some magazine or blog.

As articles like this attest, there is a deep resentment on HN with the idea that success requires long hours and slavish commitment to work.

Remember, then, that if you suppose that things which are slavish by nature are also free, and that what belongs to others is your own, then you will be hindered.

Those low-paying slavish jobs support the next layer of skilled middle-class engineers and infrastructure.

There's no secret to being a good comic book artist – it's just a love of the medium and a slavish commitment to draw as much as humanly possible.

It is clear that Lumia's design is iPhone-inspired, but it is in no way a slavish imitation, unlike a certain device from Samsung.

Life is already too much distorted by slavish devotion to bureaucratic guidelines without bringing that mindset to Hacker News.

It implies that if you aren't a slavish worker, with impervious metal discipline, you are /worthless/.It's really hard binary thinking, which I guess is what I expect from here.

The extreme alternative is Java, whose slavish obsession with backwards compatibility has effectively crippled the language.

Between all the overreactions and slavish devotion that's being thrown around, it's starting to look less like a community of probing, thoughful, inquisitive thinkers and tinkerers, and more like like a religion full of sects.

"This is how you squander your capital" Actually you squander your capital by resulting to pointless name-calling and dismissing the arguments of someone who actually has an interesting perspective to offer beyond the slavish, wide-eyed, youth-obsessed tech press.

Sadly, instead of wondering why someone of a different perspective could think that of him, he continues:"The experience of being labeled and then cast aside made me realize that what many people call 'hipsterism' or, what they perceive as a slavish devotion to irony, are often in fact just forms of extreme, radical sincerity.

Slavish definitions

adjective

blindly imitative; "a slavish copy of the original"

adjective

abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"; "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"

See also: subservient submissive