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81conformable — adj 1. corresponding, like, resembling, similar; harmonious, agreeable, congruous, congruent, consonant, consistent with; appropriate, suitable, fit, befitting, proper, meet. 2. compliant, acquiescent, submissive, yielding; malleable, ductile,… …
82creeping — adj 1. crawling, crawling on all fours; vermicular, squirming, wriggling, wiggling, Zool. rep tant. 2. slow, dragging, plodding, snail like, dawdling; lagging, trailing, tardy, dilatory. 3. cowering, crouching, cringing; groveling, reptilian,… …
83cringing — adj 1. cowering, shrinking, quailing, blenching, flinching, wincing, starting, recoiling, shying, Inf. funking, Sl. mooching; shaking, trembling, quivering, Inf. shaking in one s boots or shoes. 2. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent,… …
84groveling — adj 1. servile, slavish, obsequious, Obs. obsequent, subservient, menial, Obs., Rare. ver nile; submissive, docile, deferential, acquiescent, compliant, unassertive, Tomish, Uncle Tomish, tractable, mealy mouthed; kowtowing, bowing, bowing and… …
85menial — adj 1. attendant, attending, serving, servi tial; helping, waiting, ministering. 2. servile, slavish, subservient; fawning, obsequious, flattering, sycophantic, parasitical, Sl. bootlicking; groveling, truckling, cringing, sniveling, crouching,… …
86obedience — n 1. compliance, conformity, acquiescence, abidance, acceptance; yielding, submission, subjection, morigeration, allegiance, observance; reverence, deference, respect, respectfulness; submis siveness, adapability, malleability, tractability,… …
87obedient — adj 1. compliant, acquiescent, submissive, yielding, deferential, Rare. morigerate, moriger ous; dutiful, duteous, law abiding, rule abiding, loyal, faithful; conforming, cooperative, responsive, agreeable; supple, malleable, ductile, pliant;… …
88obsequious — adj 1. submissive, docile, unassertive, compliant, deferential, tractable, mealy mouthed, Obs. obsequent; servile, subservient, menial, slavish, toadyish, Obs., Rare. vernile; prostrate, obei sant, on one s knees. 2. groveling, crawling,… …
89parasitical — adj 1. blood sucking, sucking, draining, depleting, exhausting; absorbing, grasping, taking; leechlike, Sl. sponging, Sl. mooching, Inf. freeloading, Inf. panhandling, dependent. 2. sycophantic, sycophantish, toadying; flattering, truckling,… …
90parasitism — n 1. bloodsucking, dependency, dependence; Sl. sponging, Sl. mooching, Inf. freeloading, Inf. panhandling. 2. sycophancy, sycophantism, toadyism, tufthunt ing, fawningness, flattery; truckling, Sl. falling all over, Inf. honeying, Inf. buttering …
