Sentence examples for slavish respect from inspiring English sources
"slavish respect" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an excessive or blind admiration or reverence for someone or something. For example, "The churchgoers paid slavish respect to their pastor's words."
This slavish respect for a handful of experts is as preposterous as the multimillion-pound salary of a CEO: even the best of them, even if they're honest, cannot deliver.
Europe was being kept on the boil by rivalries between the French and Spanish kingdoms, mostly over Italian claims; and, against the advice of his older councillors, Henry in 1512 joined his father-in-law, Ferdinand II of Aragon, against France and ostensibly in support of a threatened pope, to whom the devout king for a long time paid almost slavish respect.
(3) Herder is opposed to any grammatical or lexical straightjacketing of language, any slavish obedience to grammar books and dictionaries.
Composing lyrics in the classic tradition of American song has always demanded a respect for, if not slavish adherence to, laws: of form, function, poesy.
This is obvious not only in the favouring of male artists in the Turner prize, but also in the slavish critical plaudits, financial appreciation, career opportunities and serious respect that men enjoy, while women attract mindless sneering on all sides.
Purists regard an apprentice's slavish copy as a mere curio.
Slavish opposition is just as liberty-sapping as slavish endorsement.
They had a slavish following".
Revivals are seldom slavish imitation.
"Weak" poets, slavish imitators, fell out of the equation.
