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Definition of servility in English: servilitynounsəːˈvɪlɪtisərˈvɪlədi mass nounAn excessive willingness to serve or please others. a classic example of media servility Example sentencesExamples - In no other does the spirit of servility and boot-licking display itself so openly and shamelessly.
- Here, the level of servility is truly astounding.
- He never regretted his lack of servility even though he lost the interview.
- The attitude of deference and servility of the senators facing them was no less nauseating.
- The new predominant service industries require servility over skill.
Synonyms obsequiousness, sycophancy, excessive deference, subservience, submissiveness, fawning, toadyism, toadying, grovelling, cringing, unctuousness, oiliness, abjectness, abjection, cravenness, slavishness, humility, self-abasement informal smarminess, sliminess, bootlicking North American informal apple-polishing British vulgar slang arse-licking, bum-sucking North American vulgar slang ass-kissing
Rhymesability, agility, civility, debility, docility, edibility, facility, fertility, flexility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, imbecility, infantility, juvenility, liability, mobility, nihility, nobility, nubility, puerility, senility, stability, sterility, tactility, tranquillity (US tranquility), usability, utility, versatility, viability, virility, volatility Definition of servility in US English: servilitynounsərˈvilədēsərˈvɪlədi An excessive willingness to serve or please others. a classic example of media servility Example sentencesExamples - Here, the level of servility is truly astounding.
- In no other does the spirit of servility and boot-licking display itself so openly and shamelessly.
- He never regretted his lack of servility even though he lost the interview.
- The new predominant service industries require servility over skill.
- The attitude of deference and servility of the senators facing them was no less nauseating.
Synonyms obsequiousness, sycophancy, excessive deference, subservience, submissiveness, fawning, toadyism, toadying, grovelling, cringing, unctuousness, oiliness, abjectness, abjection, cravenness, slavishness, humility, self-abasement |