词汇 | servilely |
释义 | servilely adverb uk /ˈsɜː.vaɪl.li/ us /ˈsɝː.vaɪl.li/ in a way that shows that you are too eager to serve and please someone else and do not have much respect for yourself : His colleagues lost a lot of respect for him for the way he would servilely flatter the boss. I need an assistant who can listen and do a a good job, not someone to wait on me servilely hand and foot. The positions were open only to those officers who had servilely affirmed their loyalty to the dictator. No one needs to be so servilely dependent on others. Praising insincerely or too eagerly backhanded compliment bootlicker bow and scrapeidiom crawler creep flummery glad-handing grovel grovelling grovellingly massage someone's egoidiom obsequious obsequiously people pleaser play up to someone sycophantically toady toadying truckle unctuous Related wordservile |
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