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21subservient — adjective Etymology: Latin subservient , subserviens, present participle of subservire Date: circa 1626 1. useful in an inferior capacity ; subordinate 2. serving to promote some end 3. obsequiously submissive ; truckling • subserviently adverb …
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23Public image of Barack Obama — Barack Obama campaigning in New Hampshire, August 2007. Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, has elicited a number of public perceptions regarding his personality and background. As the first African American President of the… …
24servile — servilely, adv. servility, servileness, n. /serr vil, vuyl/, adj. 1. slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers. 2. characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject: servile obedience. 3. yielding slavishly;… …
25bootlick — verb a) To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior. b) To engage in fawning, servile behavior …
26obsequious — adjective /əbˈsiːkwi.əs/ a) Obedient, compliant with someone elses orders or wishes. Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the… …
27Sycophancy — For fawning in the sense of a musical term, see Accarezzévole. Sycophancy means:[1] Obsequious flattery; servility. The character or characteristic of a sycophant. Alternative phrases are often used such as: apple polishing …
28servility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Obsequiousness Nouns 1. servility, obsequiousness, subserviency; abasement (see humility); prostration, genuflection; fawning, ingratiation; tuft hunting, timeserving, flunkyism; sycophancy, flattery.… …
29slavish — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Having the qualities of a slave] Syn. servile, cringing, fawning; see docile , obsequious . 2. [Lacking originality] Syn. uninspired, faithful, imitative; see dull 4 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. servile, submissive …
30Flattery — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Flattery >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 flattery flattery adulation gloze Sgm: N 1 blandishment blandishment blandiloquence Sgm: N 1 cajolery cajolery Sgm: N 1 fawning fawning wheedling & …
