英语词汇“subservient”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	subservient
释义	sub·ser·vi·ent I. \-nt\ adjective Etymology: Latin subservient-, subserviens, present participle of subservire to be subservient, to subserve : fitted or disposed to subserve: as a. : useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate b. : serving to promote some end c. : obsequiously submissive : servile, truckling Synonyms: servile, menial, slavish, obsequious: subservient implies compliance and obedience, perhaps abject and marked by cringing or truckling, of one very conscious of a subordinate, dependent position < the subservient smirk which comes only of generations of tip-seeking ancestors — Jack London > < editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones — G.B.Shaw > servile is likely to suggest the mean submissive cringing or fawning of a slave < servile and fawning as he had been before, he was now as domineering and bellicose — Jack London > < the manner of a prince doling out favors to a servile group of petitioners — Theodore Dreiser > menial may suggest lower domestic tasks and offices; it may suggest degradation or sordidness < competing against a mass of unemployed, they accepted the most menial and worst paid jobs — Oscar Handlin > < the scullery boy peeled the potatoes and did other menial tasks out on the open platform — O.S.Nock > slavish, in this sense derived from and suggesting slave, may connote abjectness, debasement, or extremely hard drudging toil < which attacks the poor companion bore with meekness, with cowardice, with a resignation that was half generous and half hypocritical — with the slavish submission — W.M.Thackeray > obsequious may suggest fawning, unctuous, or sycophantic compliance with and attention to those being served < brutal and arrogant when winning, they are bootlicking and servilely obsequious when losing — D.L.Cohn > II. noun (-s) : one that is subservient
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