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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Abject :: Abject (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts..
Truckler :: Truckler (n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another..
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..
Dig :: Dig (v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
Lackey :: Lackey (v.) An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
Obsequious :: Obsequious (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite..
Menial :: Menial (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Menial :: Menial (n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.
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..
Supparasite :: Supparasitation (n.) The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation.
Servile :: Servile (a.) Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved.
Menial :: Menial (n.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean..
Cringe :: Cringe (n.) Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility..
Villain :: Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant..
Root :: Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely..
Drudge :: Drudge (n.) One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.
Apish :: Apish (a.) Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
Adulate :: Adulate (v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Poking :: Poking (a.) Drudging; servile.
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