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单词 servility
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Definition of servility in English:

servility

nounsəːˈvɪlɪtisərˈvɪlədi
mass noun
  • An 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

Rhymes

ability, 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:

servility

nounsərˈvilədēsərˈvɪlədi
  • 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
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