Slavishness

  • 21peonage — Synonyms and related words: abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, employ, employment, enslavement,… …

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  • 22serfdom — Synonyms and related words: abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, employ, employment, enslavement,… …

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  • 23servility — Synonyms and related words: abjection, abjectness, absolutism, acquiescence, agreeability, agreeableness, allegiance, apple polishing, ass kissing, back seat, baseness, bend, bending the knee, biddability, bob, bond service, bondage, bow, bowing… …

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  • 24slavery — Synonyms and related words: abjectness, absolutism, attendance, baseness, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, dirty work, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, donkeywork, drudge, drudgery …

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  • 25subservience — Synonyms and related words: abjectness, agreeability, agreeableness, back seat, baseness, biddability, compliableness, docility, ductility, facility, flexibility, helotism, helotry, humbleness, humility, inferiority, juniority, lower status,… …

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  • 26adulation — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. idolization, hero worship, applause, laudation; see admiration , flattery , praise 1 , 2 , worship 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. flattery, *feet kissing, *apple polishing, *brown nosing, worshipping, fawning,… …

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  • 27slavish — slav|ish [ˈsleıvıʃ] adj obeying, supporting, or copying someone completely used to show disapproval ▪ a slavish adherence to the rules >slavishly adv ▪ not a rule to be slavishly followed in every instance >slavishness n [U] …

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  • 28slavish — 1560s, from SLAVE (Cf. slave) + ISH (Cf. ish). Sense of servilely imitative is from 1753. Related: Slavishly; slavishness …

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  • 29slavish — adjective 1》 showing no attempt at originality. 2》 servile or submissive. Derivatives slavishly adverb slavishness noun …

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  • 30obsequiousness — n. Fawning, cringing, servility, slavishness, suppleness, sycophancy, mean compliance …

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