Servile :
beroepswerk
- beroepswerk
Adjective(1) submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior(2) relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
(1) It acts in the most servile manner as an agency of the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and NATO in the hope of gleaning a few crumbs from the tables of the imperialist powers.(2) Certainly, the sociological landscape is familiar - a nation in which an educated, privileged elite suppresses a servile , but restless underclass, giving rise to a growing insurrection.(3) There will be several servile sycophants who will come forward as ÔÇÿWhite KnightsÔÇÖ to regain their lost positions.(4) What precedent is there for such servile bootlicking?(5) The character of Seneca thus finds just the right mixture of true compassion and the ranting of an alcoholic and sententious philosopher, whose servile disciples note down everything he says with ridiculous fury.(6) It is a measure of how servile the media have become that, from the tabloids to the broadsheets, the results of a survey based on asking teenagers to report their participation in a range of illicit activities are taken at face value.(7) For decades into the 20th Century, the State of Alabama, for instance, ensured a steady supply of servile Black labour to ÔÇÿU.S. SteelÔÇÖ.(8) He defined ÔÇÿslaveryÔÇÖ broadly to include all systems of servile labor.(9) Over 30 percent of MGM's cartoons released between 1946 and 1953 presented either characters in blackface or servile African American maids.(10) Even after having spent so many years in the servile conditions of the workhouse, and then the brothel, I still had the urge to say my piece, but I'd learnt that sometimes it was wiser not to.(11) Being good at service means that we are servile and demeans our noble island spirit.(12) ÔÇÿThis is really a question of listeners equating machines with human beings who are being understood to perform servile functions,ÔÇÖ she said.(13) It makes citizens passive, unproductive, and servile .(14) The Somerive family, the product of a Romantic disregard for property, hope to regain their place in the Rayland line by means of their youngest son, Orlando, a character by turns romantic, naive, and servile .(15) It is not uncommon for a citizen in India to take off his shoes before entering the office of a policeman and genuflect in a lowly and servile manner.(16) The servile journalists soon nicknamed him ÔÇÿBatkaÔÇÖ, which in Belorussian means ÔÇÿfatherÔÇÖ.
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Adjective
1. obsequious ::
kruiperig
2. sycophantic ::
kruiperig
3. deferential ::
eerbiedig
4. subservient ::
onderdanige
5. fawning ::
kruiperige
6. ingratiating ::
kruiperige
7. unctuous ::
zalvend
9. toadyish ::
toadyish
10. slavish ::
slaafse
11. humble ::
nederige
12. self-abasing ::
self-abasing
13. slimy ::
slymerige
15. smarmy ::
vleiend
16. sucky ::
sucky
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servile
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