slave-likeadj.adv.

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Kiii^v A kynde of men (doubtlesse) most miserable, most slauelike, and most contemptuous.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 206 Why..This Slaue-like Habit, and these lookes of Care?

1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon viii. 95 Carrying is accounted the most Slave-like work of all.

1792 Paddy Whiskey's Christmas Box 35 No shameless, slave-like prostitution.

1820 G. Belzoni Narr. Egypt & Nubia ii. 182 Their slave-like state, subject to the caprice of a tyrannical power.

1876 Sons of Britannia 5 Jan. 637/1 A proper recognition of a man's or woman's positions is one thing, and slave-like servility is another.

1929 Ess. & Stud. 14 93 Of these threats and this slave-like obedience there is no trace.

2021 Kenosha (Wisconsin) News 8 Dec. b5/1 The workers, many of them children,..are stuck in appalling, slave-like conditions making fake products for gang bosses who..‘have no ethics and no respect for the law.’

1572 W. Malim tr. N. Martinengo True Rep. Famagosta f. 13^v [He was] compelled to carrye two baskets of earth, the one vppon hys backe, the other in hys hand slaue like, to euery sundry battery.

1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 182 It stoode not with the high and sacred state of a King to buy and sell the bodies of men, as it were a petie-chapman: or that which is more dishonourable, slave-like to sell away his faith.

1710 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. I. xxxi. 382 Must I, slave-like, be fetter'd by your Charms, And bury all my Glory in your Arms?

1849 Polynesian (Honolulu) 29 Sept. 78/4 He braves the fierce sun of the gold regions and works, slave-like, in dirt and water, at the peril of his life, that the one whom he holds as dear to him as life may not lack for any comfort.

1992 Daily Tel. 25 July (Weekend section) p. xix/5 His work seems to have to kow-tow, slave-like, to obsessions concerning ‘racism’, ‘classism’ and ‘sexism’.

2014 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 23 July 14 Thomas's adventures..encourage us all to submit slave-like to the whims of the posh autocratic Fat Controller.