servile
adjective
Origin of servile
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Related Words for servile
abject, base, beggarly, craven, cringing, despicable, fawning, humble, ignoble, low, mean, obedient, obeisant, obsequious, passive, slavish, submissive, unctuous, bootlicking, sycophanticExamples from the Web for servile
Contemporary Examples of servile
Where Don is confident and arrogant, Bob is servile and accommodating.
They are not permitted to speak of that period of colonial history when they were ruled as a servile caste by a Tutsi elite.
In memory, he was reviled as a servile race traitor, a cringing sycophant to white wealth and power.
I found that I reverted to a housewife stereotype as servile as my grandma.
Historical Examples of servile
My brother was servile; he has attached himself to the retinue of a wealthy Baroness.
City of Endless NightMilo Hastings
Base hearts it only hardens, making those who were mean and servile, mean and proud.
Self-HelpSamuel Smiles
Art so followed is the most servile indolence in which life can be wasted.
Modern Painters Volume I (of V)John Ruskin
The servile spouters in the land are as plenty as summer flies.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
Now both these are branches of the servile or ministerial art.
StatesmanPlato