slavish

Definition

In the manner of a slave; abject.

Etymology

From slave + -ish.

Example Sentences

• "“You have freed them from higher restraint, Halbert,” answered the Abbot, “and therein taught them to rebel against your own.” / “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”"
• "a slavish reproduction"
• "slavish observation of rules"