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a slave to
adjective as in downtrodden
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adjective as in oppressed
adjective as in subservient
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It’s not an accident that all of McQueen’s films — from his Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave” to 2008’s “Hunger” and 2011’s unnerving psychological piece “Shame” — are dramas, often featuring distressing scenes that reveal the worst in humanity.
But, Pochettino added, he won’t be a slave to any one approach.
Constitution still considered a slave to be three-fifths of a person and didn’t give freedmen the right to vote.
“I share in what I am creating. It’s not just necessarily a work for hire where I’m a slave to the master, a very unfortunate reality of what artists were subjected to when starting their careers,” Usher said.
He was born a slave to the secretary of Roman Emperor Nero and became disabled after his master broke his leg.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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