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  • 91reptile — a. 1. Creeping, crawling. 2. Grovelling, mean, vile, low, vulgar …

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  • 92servile — a. 1. Dependent, menial, held in bondage, held in slavery, held in subjection. 2. Slavish, mean, base, cringing, obsequious, fawning, supple, grovelling, sycophantic, abject, low, beggarly, sneaking, base minded, low minded, meanly submissive …

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  • 93slavish — a. 1. Servile, low, mean, base, cringing, obsequious, fawning, supple, grovelling, sycophantic, abject, sneaking, beggarly, base minded, low minded. 2. Drudging, laborious, menial, servile …

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  • 94sneaking — a. 1. Servile, slavish, cringing, obsequious, fawning, grovelling, truckling, crouching, mean, low, base, abject, vile, beggarly, time serving. 2. Secret, underhand, clandestine, concealed, hidden, covert, sly …

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  • 95supple — a. 1. Pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, limber, lithe, lithesome, easily bent, elastic. 2. Yielding, compliant, submissive, humble, soft. 3. Servile, obsequious, cringing, slavish, fawning, grovelling, sycophantic, flattering, supple chapped,… …

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  • 96sycophantic — a. Fawning, cringing, servile, slavish, parasitic, obsequious, adulatory, supple, grovelling, meanly submissive …

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  • 97vile — a. 1. Base, mean, low, despicable, paltry, contemptible, beggarly, grovelling, pitiful, ignoble, abject, scurvy, shabby, sorry. 2. Sinful, wicked, bad, base, impure, vicious, iniquitous. 3. Worthless, of poor quality, linsey woolsey, cheap,… …

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  • 98worldly — a. 1. Earthly, mundane, terrestrial, terrene, sublunary, human, common. 2. Secular, temporal. 3. Sordid, grovelling, selfish, ambitious, proud, anxious for power, place, or wealth, worldly minded, earth born, irreligious …

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  • 99base — I. a. 1. Inferior, of little or no worth, cheap, worthless. 2. Debased, spurious, counterfeit, false. 3. Plebeian, vulgar, untitled, nameless, lowly, humble, unknown, unhonored, base born, of low birth. 4. Mean, despicable, contemptible, beggarly …

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  • 100dirty — I. a. 1. Unclean, foul, filthy, nasty, soiled, begrimed. 2. Clouded, cloudy, dark, sullied, dull. 3. Mean, base, vile, low, grovelling, sneaking, pitiful, paltry, beggarly, scurvy, shabby, despicable, contemptible. 4. [Said of weather.] Foul,… …

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