Definition of servile

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Servile (a.) Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience..

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Ducker :: Ducker (n.) A cringing, servile person; a fawner..
Dig :: Dig (v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
Obeisant :: Obeisant (a.) Ready to obey; reverent; differential; also, servilely submissive..
Menial :: Menial (n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices..
Apish :: Apish (a.) Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
Crawl :: Crawl (v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
Rep-silver :: Rep-silver (n.) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain..
Apishly :: Apishly (adv.) In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly.
Sorehon :: Sorehon (n.) Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel..
Fawn :: Fawn (n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Menial :: Menial (n.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean..
Poking :: Poking (a.) Drudging; servile.
Uxorial :: Uxorial (a.) Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious; also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife..
Minion :: Minion (n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
Abject :: Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts..
Slavish :: Slavish (a.) Of or pertaining to slaves; such as becomes or befits a slave; servile; excessively laborious; as, a slavish life; a slavish dependance on the great..
Abjectly :: Abjectly (adv.) Meanly; servilely.
Pleaseman :: Pleaseman (n.) An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank.
Liberal :: Liberal (a.) Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies..
Creature :: Creature (n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
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