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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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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
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