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All servile synonyms

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adj servile

  • compliable — compliant
  • in one's pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
  • ill-bred — showing lack of good social breeding; unmannerly; rude.
  • adulatory — If someone makes an adulatory comment about someone, they praise them and show their admiration of them.
  • in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
  • at one's mercy — compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence: Have mercy on the poor sinner.
  • dancing — When people dance for enjoyment or to entertain others, you can refer to this activity as dancing.
  • meanspirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
  • lowborn — of humble birth.
  • lowdown — the real and unadorned facts; the true, secret, or inside information (usually preceded by the): We gave them the lowdown on the new housing project.
  • lowly — humble in station, condition, or nature: a lowly cottage.
  • menial — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
  • cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
  • low — to utter by or as by lowing.
  • low-down — If someone gives you the low-down on a person or thing, they tell you all the important information about them.
  • down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • crumby — full of or littered with crumbs
  • fawning — a young deer, especially an unweaned one.
  • mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
  • abject — You use abject to emphasize that a situation or quality is extremely bad.
  • ignoble — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.

adjective servile

  • cringing — servile; obsequious
  • humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
  • groveling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
  • grovelling — to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
  • obsequious — characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
  • obeisant — a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.
  • mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
  • oily — smeared or covered with oil; greasy: an oily road surface.
  • wormlike — Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
  • base — The base of something is its lowest edge or part.
  • nonresistant — not able, conditioned, or constructed to withstand the effect of something, as a disease, a specific change in temperature, or harsh treatment; susceptible to damage or ill effects.
  • ingratiating — charming; agreeable; pleasing.
  • nonresisting — Unresisting; without resistance.
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