Translations for „slavish“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

slavish [ˈsleɪvɪʃ] ADJ

1. slavish (unoriginal):

slavish

неоригина́льный

2. slavish (servile):

slavish

ра́бский

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English

Effective government means thinking government, not merely one dedicated to slavish and unthinking obedience to the whim of the moment.

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The problem is a slavish sycophancy among media elites toward the power structures and powerful individuals whom they admire.

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He claimed that the nascent democratic movement of his time was essentially slavish and weak.

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Too often there is slavish reading of a text probably written by some speechwriter.

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This requires shedding off the slavish mentality endorsed by their patrons.

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He did not want to promote a system of slavish adherence to a deontology.

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However, it rejected a slavish use of ring-roads around large towns.

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His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds.

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In attacks on him with comedy he is represented as being of slavish and foreign background, both of which are improbable.

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Halting and subdued in nature, its performance should be highly expressive, and freed from slavish dependence on note values.

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