Slavishness

  • 31servility — n. 1. Slavery, bondage, dependence. 2. Slavishness, baseness, meanness, abjectness, abjection, obsequiousness, fawning, sycophancy …

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  • 32slavish — adjective slavish imitation/devotion etc behaviour or actions that show that you cannot make your own decisions about what you should do: a slavish devotion to duty slavishly adverb slavishness noun (U) …

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  • 33abjectness — n 1. humbleness, poorness, beggarliness, paltriness, patheticalness, pitifulness, pitiableness; shabbiness, shoddiness, dirtiness, scrubbiness, scruffiness, scurviness; miserableness, squalidness, starkness, hopelessness, oppressiveness;… …

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  • 34acquiescence — n 1. consent, assent, abidance, compliance, obedience; agreement, concurrence, accordance; acknowledgment, willingness, sufferance; surrender, resignation, capitulation, submission, yielding, giving in, accedence, concession, nonresistance. 2.… …

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  • 35adulation — n 1. worship, hero worship, idolization, adoration, deification; glorification, exaltation, extolment. 2. sycophancy, toadyism, toadeating, tufthunting, flattery, lip homage, lip service, Rare. blandation; cajolery, blandishment, blarney, palaver …

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  • 36baseness — n 1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness,… …

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  • 37compliance — n 1. acquiescence, yielding, assent, abidance, submission; adaptability, agreeableness, complaisance, tractableness, tractability, malleability, malleableness, pliancy; respectfulness, dutifulness, faithfulness, biddableness, deference,… …

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  • 38deference — n 1. submission, acquiescence, compliance, resignation, acceptance, yielding; nonresis tance, passivity, complaisance; obeisance, obsequiousness, obsequence, servility, slavishness, abjection, self abasement, prostration; docility, submissiveness …

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  • 39fawning — adj 1. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. vernile; submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, acquiescent, deferential, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy mouthed; groveling, crawling, creeping,… …

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  • 40obeisance — n 1. deference, homage, worship, adoration; respect, honor, regard; reverence, veneration, estimation, esteem. 2. obsequiousness, servility, sycophancy, fawning, toadying; submissiveness, subservience, slavishness; supineness, passivity,… …

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