Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a slave, or resembling conditions of slavery

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective suitable for a slave or servant

Etymologies

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slave +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The Huffington Post may be carrying a piece with a different emphasis which is perfectly fine, but this one is about the slavelike devotion of the corporate media to the storylines being spun by right wing operative Drudge on his site.

    But Did Elizabeth Edwards Really Accuse Hillary Of "Behaving Like A Man"? 2009

  • One presumes that the Lamonts did so because of Walmart being profitable to their stockholders, those willing to make a buck off the suffering of slavelike sweat shops in third world countries and conditions, and the erosion of American worker's jobs ... all of which come from the same business practices that Lamont publicly blasted this week.

    CT-SEN: Will Lieberman Really Stick To Plan To Run As Independent? 2009

  • One presumes that the Lamonts did so because of Walmart being profitable to their stockholders, those willing to make a buck off the suffering of slavelike sweat shops in third world countries and conditions, and the erosion of American worker's jobs ... all of which come from the same business practices that Lamont publicly blasted this week.

    CT-SEN: Lieberman Scrapping Ground Game Plans In Favor Of TV Ads 2009

  • One presumes that the Lamonts did so because of Walmart being profitable to their stockholders, those willing to make a buck off the suffering of slavelike sweat shops in third world countries and conditions, and the erosion of American worker's jobs ... all of which come from the same business practices that Lamont publicly blasted this week.

    Midterm Roundup 2009

  • One presumes that the Lamonts did so because of Walmart being profitable to their stockholders, those willing to make a buck off the suffering of slavelike sweat shops in third world countries and conditions, and the erosion of American worker's jobs ... all of which come from the same business practices that Lamont publicly blasted this week.

    CT-SEN: Poll: Lieberman Popular With GOPers 2009

  • According to them, the choices are between a free-enterprise system of health care, or slavelike submission to a state-controlled system that will drag down the quality of care and eliminate all personal decisions and human dignity.

    Jesse Larner: Michael Moore and National Health Care: Lies of the Left and the Right 2008

  • In defense of his order to nationalize, the government cited the positive role of the steel workers in opposing the coup, the ‘slavelike’ work conditions and the export strategies, which denied the domestic construction industry the steel it needed for highpriority homebuilding.

    Pelosi's First Primary Opponent Since She's Been An Incumbent is Number One On Act Blue... and a Lesbian. 2008

  • Today's slaves may not be bought, sold or tortured in the public square, like those in "Roots" or "Amistad," but experts with the Protection Project, an anti-trafficking program at Johns Hopkins University, estimate that 1 million undocumented immigrants are currently trapped here in slavelike conditions.

    Slavery's New Face 2008

  • Europeans and others around the world are contemptuous of America's slavelike obedience to a small foreign power.

    Sleep Soundly 2007

  • The aborigines ( "Indians"), the Chinese brought here to work slavelike on railroad construction, and the "Negroes" shipped from Africa to provide low-cost or no-cost labor for the northern industries and southern plantations, were not part of the plan.

    The U.S. Tower of Babel 2006

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