servilely
IPA: sˈɝvʌɫɫi
adverb
- In a servile way; fawningly.
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Examples of "servilely" in Sentences
- " We must not servilely accept gratuities for doing our duty."
- Joe should have just servilely agreed with Obama; then he'd still have his normal life.
- Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched.
- I copied the best masters, at first servilely, afterward more freely, and at last I joined habit and invention.
- He attends even to their air, dress, and motions, and imitates them, liberally, and not servilely; he copies, but does not mimic.
- Copy him, then, not servilely, but as some of the greatest masters of painting have copied others; insomuch that their copies have been equal to the originals, both as to beauty and freedom.
- So saying, and quite indifferent to the astonishment his presence occasioned, he crept in, shut the door, kissed his greasy glove as servilely as if it were the dust, and made a most abject bow.
- People value Huffington and rightly so, in my opinion, because it emerged at the time when the press had failed, been overtaken by commercial goals, and was servilely playing tag-along to the Bush government, and the Iraq war.
- And since the presidential election was in December, the CNE servilely decided that nothing should cloud the presidential election and thus nobody would be allowed to present a petition before sometime in 2007, AFTER the CNE finally got around to set up rules that it should have set BEFORE the 2004 Recall Election.
- On the other hand, the cunning, crafty man thinks to gain all his ends by the suaviter in modo only; HE BECOMES ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN; he seems to have no opinion of his own, and servilely adopts the present opinion of the present person; he insinuates himself only into the esteem of fools, but is soon detected, and surely despised by everybody else.
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