Thesaurus / servile
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The “truth” that the film claims to reveal is that there was a “genocide” of Pandits in the 1990s, hidden by a callous ruling establishment and a servile media.
THE KASHMIR FILES: HOW A NEW BOLLYWOOD FILM MARKS INDIA’S FURTHER DESCENT INTO BIGOTRYDEBASISH ROY CHOWDHURYMARCH 30, 2022TIMEI really wanted to show how people of color in servile positions to a largely homogenous group of people, when that’s your employment, you’re not allowed to say what you think always.
NATASHA ROTHWELL SAYS GOODBYE TO INSECURE—AND HELLO TO THE FUTURECADY LANGDECEMBER 27, 2021TIMEFor India’s mostly servile media, this is a striking break from the usual after seven years of Modi.
IT ISN'T JUST MODI. INDIA’S COMPLIANT MEDIA MUST ALSO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE COVID-19 CRISISDEBASISH ROY CHOWDHURYMAY 3, 2021TIMEJulie Andrews played Cinderella—neat as a new pin and not remotely servile.
WHAT THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CINDERELLA FAIRY TALE MEANS FOR REAL WOMEN TODAYCAROL DYHOUSEAPRIL 19, 2021TIMEWomen were better at carrying heavy loads because their heads were harder and stronger, the Arapesh would say, not because women were naturally suited to servile tasks.
GENDER IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT - ISSUE 88: LOVE & SEXCHARLES KINGAUGUST 5, 2020NAUTILUSIt is only the servile adulation of later writers that has pictured Bruce as animated by patriotism.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONThis he promptly did, and in almost servile language withdrew all the opinions to which the fathers had objected.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALERFrom the freedom of nature it sinks into a servile copyism which can hardly be called art at all.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROWGospodin Berkman—somehow it echoed the servile barinya with which the domestics used to address my mother.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANWould those silly men, those servile votaries of fortune, those effete courtiers, have said this a week ago?
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREWORDS RELATED TO SERVILE
- abject
- base
- baseborn
- coarse
- common
- contemptible
- corrupt
- craven
- dastardly
- degenerate
- degraded
- despicable
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- heinous
- humble
- infamous
- inferior
- lewd
- low
- mean
- menial
- modest
- ordinary
- peasant
- petty
- plain
- plebeian
- poor
- rotten
- scurvy
- servile
- shabby
- shameful
- simple
- sordid
- unwashed
- vile
- vulgar
- wicked
- wretched
- wrong
- abject
- base
- blue
- coarse
- common
- contemptible
- crass
- crumby
- dastardly
- degraded
- depraved
- despicable
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- disreputable
- gross
- ignoble
- ill-bred
- inelegant
- mean
- menial
- miserable
- nasty
- obscene
- off-color
- offensive
- raw
- rough
- rude
- scrubby
- scruffy
- scurvy
- servile
- sordid
- unbecoming
- uncouth
- undignified
- unrefined
- unworthy
- vile
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- average
- base
- baseborn
- cast down
- common
- commonplace
- docile
- dutiful
- everyday
- gentle
- humble
- ignoble
- low
- lowborn
- mean
- meek
- menial
- mild
- modest
- mundane
- obscure
- obsequious
- ordinary
- plebeian
- poor
- proletarian
- prosaic
- retiring
- reverential
- servile
- simple
- submissive
- subordinate
- unassuming
- unpretentious
- withdrawing
- base
- beggarly
- common
- contemptible
- down-at-heel
- déclassé
- hack
- humble
- ignoble
- ineffectual
- inferior
- insignificant
- knavish
- limited
- low
- lowborn
- lowly
- mediocre
- menial
- miserable
- modest
- obscure
- ordinary
- paltry
- petty
- pitiful
- plebeian
- proletarian
- run down
- scruffy
- second-class
- second-rate
- seedy
- servile
- shabby
- sordid
- squalid
- tawdry
- undistinguished
- unwashed
- vulgar
- wretched
- base
- beggarly
- common
- contemptible
- down-at-heel
- déclassé
- hack
- humble
- ignoble
- ineffectual
- inferior
- insignificant
- limited
- low
- lowborn
- lowly
- mediocre
- menial
- miserable
- modest
- narrow
- obscure
- ordinary
- paltry
- petty
- pitiful
- plebeian
- proletarian
- run-down
- scruffy
- second-class
- second-rate
- seedy
- servile
- shabby
- sordid
- squalid
- tawdry
- undistinguished
- unwashed
- vulgar
- wretched
- abject
- beggarly
- brown-nosing
- complacent
- compliable
- compliant
- cringing
- crouching
- deferential
- enslaved
- fawning
- flattering
- ingratiating
- kowtowing
- menial
- obeisant
- oily
- parasitic
- parasitical
- prostrate
- respectful
- servile
- slavish
- sneaking
- sniveling
- spineless
- stipendiary
- subject
- submissive
- subordinate
- subservient
- sycophantic
- toadying
- unctuous
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