Meanings

1. 1

   slavish; abject

2. 2

   slavish; obeying or sticking to a rule without reflection

   Sklavische Einhaltung von Regeln bewirkt oft genug das Gegenteil dessen, was mit diesen Regeln eigentlich beabsichtigt war.Slavish observation of rules quite often achieves the opposite of what these rules were originally intended to.