servile English

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servile

— adjective submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior spoke in a servile tone the incurably servile housekeeper servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work

— adjective relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants Brown's attempt at servile insurrection the servile wars of Sicily servile work

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servile English » English

slavish

subservient

obsequious

subject

fawning

dependent

abject

vassal

underling

timid

tame

sycophantic

subordinate

submissive

stooge

slavelike

slaveholding

slave

serflike

serf

reserved

minion

literal

lackey

illiberal

henchman

grovelling

grovel

follower

flunkey

degraded

auxiliary