Crossword-Solution: SERVILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Servile | a. | Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. |
| Servile | a. | Held in subjection; dependent; enslaved. |
| Servile | a. | Not belonging to the original root; as, a servile letter. |
| Servile | a. | Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune. |
| Servile | n. | An element which forms no part of the original root; -- opposed to radical. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SERVILE | anagram | LEVIERS, RELIVES, REVILES |
We have 35 clues for the answer “SERVILE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior | 1 answer |
| Truckling. | 1 answer |
| SLAVE (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| Like a toady | 1 answer |
| Humbly yielding | 1 answer |
| Fawning; truckling | 1 answer |
| Cravenly submissive | 1 answer |
| Like lackeys | 2 answers |
| Abjectly submissive | 2 answers |
| Overly submissive | 2 answers |
| Bootlicking | 5 answers |
| slavish | 7 answers |
| ASK humbly | 10 answers |
| BE OBSEQUIOUS | 10 answers |
| toadying | 11 answers |
| ingratiating | 14 answers |
| sycophantic | 19 answers |
| Obsequious | 23 answers |
| Menial | 25 answers |
| adulatory | 25 answers |
| spineless | 27 answers |
| flattering | 28 answers |
| plebeian | 31 answers |
| supine | 36 answers |
| fulsome | 51 answers |
| Ignoble | 52 answers |
| cringing | 52 answers |
| grovelling | 53 answers |
| subservient | 54 answers |
| Fawning | 63 answers |
| Submissive | 66 answers |
| Abject | 69 answers |
| Subject | 72 answers |
| Subdued | 75 answers |
| Base | 97 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SERVILE (5)
Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain’d Unacceptable, though in Heav’n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp.
One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient republics of Greece, was the permission to take an active interest in public affairs; and Aesop, like the philosophers Phaedo, Menippus, and Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a servile condition to a position of high renown.
With what ease, Endued with regal virtues as thou art, Appearing, and beginning noble deeds, Might’st thou expel this monster from his throne, 100 Now made a sty, and, in his place ascending, A victor-people free from servile yoke! And with my help thou may’st; to me the power Is given, and by that right I give it thee.
Even though we died in the attempt, would not our memories be fairer than as though we remained in servile fear to be butchered by a cruel and unjust tyrant—call her goddess or mortal, as you will.” As I finished I raised Xodar to his feet and released him.
The ex-slave had limited education, limited experience, a servile slave attitude, and he was in need of social and economic training to compensate for the years of slavery.
Quotes with SERVILE (3)
It is immoral to hold an opinion in order to curry another's favor; mercenary, servile, and against the dignity of human liberty to yield and submit; supremely stupid to believe as a matter of habit; irrational to decide according to the majority opinion, as if the number of sages exceeded the infinite number of fools.
The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate bondage, and the meanest and most servile preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principle put themselves forward as the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a wor…
Once machines performed all the servile functions formerly performed by the lower classes, the population immediately achieved equality, ending over ten thousand years of class systems.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1959–2024).