Modifies a noun

• adherence: Only the most perverse of people could have stayed with it through all its slavish adherence to Moscow.

• devotion: Even the worst king could, in these ways, evoke a slavish devotion in his subjects.

• imitation: He said: " We know how to maneuver, we do not want slavish imitation.

• dependence: Our own lack of imagination and those who enforce our slavish dependence upon non-renewable energy sources combine to blind us from seeing these opportunities.

• following: Ours is not a slavish following, however - we consider it essential to treat each program or project on its merits.

• worship: She paints a frightening picture of democratic deficit, control freakery and slavish leader worship.

Modifying Another Word

• not: It's not slavish devotion to free market economics to point that out.

• almost: The almost slavish adherence to the idea that presentation is paramount is like applying gloss paint to rotten woodwork.

• too: And do not become too slavish to the rules of composition.

Used with adjective complement

• become: And do not become too slavish to the rules of composition.