servile 的定义
- slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
- characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject: servile obedience.
- yielding slavishly; truckling.
- extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality.
- being in slavery; oppressed.
- of, relating to, or involving slaves or servants.
- 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
grovelling, subservient
更多servile例句
- For India’s mostly servile media, this is a striking break from the usual after seven years of Modi.
- Julie Andrews played Cinderella—neat as a new pin and not remotely servile.
- 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.
- 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.
- It is only the servile adulation of later writers that has pictured Bruce as animated by patriotism.
- This he promptly did, and in almost servile language withdrew all the opinions to which the fathers had objected.
- From the freedom of nature it sinks into a servile copyism which can hardly be called art at all.
- Gospodin Berkman—somehow it echoed the servile barinya with which the domestics used to address my mother.
- Would those silly men, those servile votaries of fortune, those effete courtiers, have said this a week ago?