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servile

/sur-vil, -vahyl/US // ˈsɜr vɪl, -vaɪl //UK // (ˈsɜːvaɪl) //

奴役,农奴,奴性,奴仆

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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?