0 obeying completely and having no original thoughts or ideas:
a slavish translation
He was criticized for his slavish devotion to rules and regulations.
Ethics means confronting the ambiguous and the obvious alike, without slavish dogma, especially from the left.
Dangers of slavish over-adherence to deleterious 'substitute judgements', potentially based on outmoded and ill-informed previous views, are, it is to be hoped, avoided.
This does not extend, however, to a slavish addition to form.
This mismatch undermines assumptions that the rural masses are slavish followers of their religious leaders.
Certainly much of the research of the 1980s could be in part characterized as the slavish replication of studies conducted in first language.
Thereby the dangers of slavish overadherence to deleterious 'substitute judgements', potentially based on outmoded and ill-informed previous views, should be avoided.
More important, it gives them a validity which mere and often slavish adherence to the parent tradition usually the first manifestations of writing in the imported language does not.
Without being a slavish devotee of what is called purchasing power parity theory.