servileadjective
uk/ˈsɜː.vaɪl/us/ˈsɝː.vəl/disapprovingtoo eager to serve and please someone else in a way that shows you do not have much respect for yourself:
As a waiter you want to be pleasant to people without appearing totally servile.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
- arse-licker
- bow and scrape idiom
- brown-nose
- crawler
- creep
- fawn
- flatter
- flattery
- flattery will get you nowhere idiom
- glad-handing
- grovel
- idealize
- left-handed compliment
- massage
- massage sb's ego idiom
- obsequious
- play up to sb
- schmooze
- slobber
- unctuous
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servility
noun [ U ] uk/sɜːˈvɪl.ə.ti/us/sɝːˈvɪl.ə.t̬i/formal disapproving
She found the servility of the hotel staff embarrassing.