Servile vs Disgraceful - What's the difference?
servile | disgraceful | Related terms |
of or pertaining to a slave
* Alexander Pope
submissive or slavish
(grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
(grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e'' in ''tune .
Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
Giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation.
Servile is a related term of disgraceful.
As adjectives the difference between servile and disgraceful
is that servile is of or pertaining to a slave while disgraceful is bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.As a noun servile
is (grammar) an element which forms no part of the original root.servile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
- servile''' flattery; '''servile obedience
- a servile letter
