following or copying someone or something exactly without having any original thought at all a slavish adherence to the rules slavish obedience a slavish imitation of Hitchcock's films
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adverb You don't need to stick slavishly to the recipe.See slavish in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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