In fact, this was a much more slavish copy than anything the Seleighe elves ever produced.

But he spurned the concept of slavish copies of the French designs.

Despite reams of developer publicity claiming it respects Dobson and Grainger's original architecture, Oldham says it is a mere slavish copy of the past.

But the new film is not a slavish copy; it is an amiable movie with its own ambitions, and too many missteps to duplicate the comic sweetness of last year's hit.

The performance by Mr. Dooley and the Musick's Monument Consort of Viols was hardly a slavish copy of Deller's.

Molvær's muted trumpet sound, sometimes electronically processed, had an obvious debt to Miles Davis's work of the 1970s and 1980s, but without being a slavish copy.

Vermeule noted the resemblance of the half dollar to Roty's "Sower" but states that Weinman's piece "is an original creation, not a slavish copy".

The slavish copy of the 4-3-3 with Lionel Messi in that false number nine position has not been a success - and the players know it.

A slavish photographic copy of a painting thus, according to Nimmer, lacks originality and thus copyrightability under the U.S. Copyright Act.

Considering they publicly retreated from their previous design for the 10.2 after Apple released the iPad 2 and then end up releasing a slavish copy they are likely to lose big...