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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Servility :: Servility (n.) The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
Obsequious :: Obsequious (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite..
Lackey :: Lackey (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Toadyism :: Toadyism (n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
Menial :: Menial (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Ape :: Ape (n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
Crawl :: Crawl (v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
Fawn :: Fawn (n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Servilely :: Servilely (adv.) In a servile manner; slavishly.
Bordage :: Bordage (n.) The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.
Cringe :: Cringe (n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility..
Servile :: 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..
Servile :: Servile (a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
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..
Servile :: Servile (n.) An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical.
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Pleaseman :: Pleaseman (n.) An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank.
Parrotry :: Parrotry (n.) Servile imitation or repetition.
Adulatory :: Adulatory (a.) Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address..
Adulate :: Adulate (v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
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