Definition of "slavishly" [slavishly]

• In a slavish manner. (adverb)

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• "The word "slavishly" appears three times in Apple's lawsuit."
• "What point would there be in slavishly retelling Wallace's "memoir" on the big screen anyway?"
• "The problem here is "not that it's running out of ideas, or lifting them too slavishly from the original comic, but that it lunges at them with an infantile lack of grace, throwing money at one special effect after another and praying - or calculating - that some of them will fly.""