servile / ˈsɜr vɪl, -vaɪl /

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servile 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
  2. characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject: servile obedience.
  3. yielding slavishly; truckling.
  4. extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality.
  5. being in slavery; oppressed.
  6. of, relating to, or involving slaves or servants.
  7. of or relating to a condition of servitude or property ownership in which a person is held in slavery or partially enslaved: medieval rebellions against servile laws.

servile 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

grovelling, subservient

更多servile例句

  1. For India’s mostly servile media, this is a striking break from the usual after seven years of Modi.
  2. Julie Andrews played Cinderella—neat as a new pin and not remotely servile.
  3. Women were better at carrying heavy loads because their heads were harder and stronger, the Arapesh would say, not because women were naturally suited to servile tasks.
  4. Where Don is confident and arrogant, Bob is servile and accommodating.
  5. They are not permitted to speak of that period of colonial history when they were ruled as a servile caste by a Tutsi elite.
  6. In memory, he was reviled as a servile race traitor, a cringing sycophant to white wealth and power.
  7. I found that I reverted to a housewife stereotype as servile as my grandma.
  8. It is only the servile adulation of later writers that has pictured Bruce as animated by patriotism.
  9. This he promptly did, and in almost servile language withdrew all the opinions to which the fathers had objected.
  10. From the freedom of nature it sinks into a servile copyism which can hardly be called art at all.
  11. Gospodin Berkman—somehow it echoed the servile barinya with which the domestics used to address my mother.
  12. Would those silly men, those servile votaries of fortune, those effete courtiers, have said this a week ago?