How do you define "servility"?
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Servility
/sɚˈvɪ.lɪ.ti/
Synonyms for "servility" (133 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Noun(2 words)
abjectionabjectnessabsolutismacquiescenceagreeabilityagreeablenessallegianceapple-polishingass-kissingback seatbasenessbendbending the kneebiddabilitybobbond servicebondagebowbowing and scrapingbrown-nosing
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Strong matches (40)
cringingcurtsydebt slaverydeprivation of freedomdipping the colorsdisenfranchisementdisfranchisementdocilitydominationductilityduteousnessdutifulnessenslavemententhrallmentfacilityfaithfawningfealtyfeudalismfeudality
Noun(3 words)
Related words (66)
malleabilitymeannessminoritymoldabilitynodobedienceobediencyobeisanceobsequiousnessobservancepeonageplasticitypliabilitypliancypresenting armsprostrationrestraintreverencesalaamsalutation
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salutescrapesecond fiddlesecond stringsecondarinessserfdomserfhoodserviceservitiumservitudeslaveryslavishnesssliminessstanding at attentionsubjectionsubjugationsubmissionsubmissivenesssubordinacysubordinationsubserviencesuit and servicesuit servicesycophancysycophantismthird stringthrallthralldomtoadyingtoadyismtractabilitytrucklingtyrannyunctuousnessvassalagevilenessvillenagewheedlingwillingnessyieldingnessyoke
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5 entriesCollocations
5 entriesextreme servilityfeudal servilityinstitutional servilitypolitical servilitypublic servility
Inflections
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2 entriesSample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.
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Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.
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