SERVILE in a Sentence
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19 example sentences for SERVILE, such as:
1. It was like a placid mask of servility.
2. A shade of mockery relieved the servility of his manner.
3. Constantly fawning on his employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile creature.
4. They were obsequious and servile and did not presume to talk to their masters as if they were their equals.
5. The crouching servility, usually so acceptable a quality in a slave, did not answer when manifested toward her.
2. A shade of mockery relieved the servility of his manner.
3. Constantly fawning on his employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile creature.
4. They were obsequious and servile and did not presume to talk to their masters as if they were their equals.
5. The crouching servility, usually so acceptable a quality in a slave, did not answer when manifested toward her.
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Meanings and Examples of SERVILE
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servile
a. slavish; suitable to slave or servant; relating to servitude or forced labor
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 Abashed glances of servile wonder were exchanged by the sailors, as this was said; and with fascinated eyes they awaited whatever magic might follow.
2 He was just proud enough to demand the most debasing homage of the slave, and quite servile enough to crouch, himself, at the feet of the master.
3 She also is dressed with great neatness, and her white, delicate hands betray very little acquaintance with servile toil.
4 He is usually respectful to the attendant and at times servile; but to-night, the man tells me, he was quite haughty.
5 Not in bed yet,' he said, with a kind of servile heartiness; 'it's so natural.
6 Our servile rabble applauded, but I attacked him, not from compassion for the girls and their fathers, but simply because they were applauding such an insect.
7 Boris belonged to the latter and no one else, while showing servile respect to Kutuzov, could so create an impression that the old fellow was not much good and that Bennigsen managed everything.
8 They were obsequious and servile and did not presume to talk to their masters as if they were their equals.
9 Standing at this table, I became conscious of the servile Pumblechook in a black cloak and several yards of hatband, who was alternately stuffing himself, and making obsequious movements to catch my attention.
10 In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges.
11 A shade of mockery relieved the servility of his manner.
12 It was like a placid mask of servility.
13 They are interrupted by the entry of Louka, a handsome, proud girl in a pretty Bulgarian peasant's dress with double apron, so defiant that her servility to Raina is almost insolent.
14 Formerly he had the same combination of servility and impertinence which Wilkerson possessed but now, with Mr. Calvert and Raiford dead in the war and Cade sick, he had dropped all servility.
15 The crouching servility, usually so acceptable a quality in a slave, did not answer when manifested toward her.
Example Sentence:
1 Constantly fawning on his employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile creature.