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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Creature :: Creature (n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
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..
Apish :: Apish (a.) Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
Minion :: Minion (n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
Obsequious :: Obsequious (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite..
Observance :: Observance (n.) Servile attention; sycophancy.
Fawn :: Fawn (n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Labor :: Labor (n.) To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil..
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..
Vernile :: Vernile (a.) Suiting a salve; servile; obsequious.
Adulate :: Adulate (v. t.) To flatter in a servile way.
Crawl :: Crawl (v. i.) To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
Parrotry :: Parrotry (n.) Servile imitation or repetition.
Servileness :: Servileness (n.) Quality of being servile; servility.
Crouch :: Crouch (v. i.) To bend servilely; to stoop meanly; to fawn; to cringe.
Lackey :: Lackey (v. i.) To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
Menial :: Menial (n.) A person of a servile character or disposition.
Root :: Root (v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility; to fawn servilely..
Servile :: Servile (a.) Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter..
Servility :: Servility (n.) The quality or state of being servile; servileness.
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