Servile vs Flattery - What's the difference?
servile | flattery |
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 .
(uncountable) Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
*
, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (countable) An instance of excessive praise.
As nouns the difference between servile and flattery
is that servile is (grammar) an element which forms no part of the original root while flattery is (uncountable) excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.As an adjective servile
is of or pertaining to a slave.servile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Even fortune rules no more, O servile land!
- servile''' flattery; '''servile obedience
- a servile letter
Antonyms
* radicalAnagrams
* * ----flattery
English
Noun
citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery , seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}