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obsequious person

  • 1 obsequioso

    adj.
    obliging, accommodating, attentive, complimentary.
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    1 (amable, complaciente) obliging
    2 peyorativo obsequious
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    ADJ
    1) (=servicial) deferential, obliging
    2) (=adulador) obsequious
    3) Méx (=dadivoso) fond of giving presents
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    - sa adjetivo deferential
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    = obliging, helpful.
    Ex. There are different styles of handling interpersonal conflict such as integrating, obliging, dominating, avoiding, and compromising.
    Ex. Strange that so helpful and charming a person in his capacity as a librarian could behave so monstrously; but behave thus he did.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo deferential
    * * *
    = obliging, helpful.

    Ex: There are different styles of handling interpersonal conflict such as integrating, obliging, dominating, avoiding, and compromising.

    Ex: Strange that so helpful and charming a person in his capacity as a librarian could behave so monstrously; but behave thus he did.

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    deferential
    excesivamente or demasiado obsequioso obsequious
    * * *
    obsequioso, -a adj
    ingratiating;
    * * *
    adj attentive
    * * *
    obsequioso, -sa adj
    : obliging, attentive

    Spanish-English dictionary > obsequioso

  • 2 servil

    adj.
    servile.
    f. & m.
    servile person.
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    1 (humilde) servile
    2 (obediente) subservient
    3 (rastrero) base
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    ADJ
    1) (=poco apreciado) [actitud, comportamiento] servile, obsequious; [trabajo] menial
    2) [imitación, estilo] slavish
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    a) <persona/actitud> servile, obsequious (frml)
    b) < trabajo> menial
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    = subservient, menial.
    Ex. Feminists have also indicated the demeaning and subservient features which characterise working relations between women and men as subordinates and superiors at work.
    Ex. The librarians too often fall prey to laziness by refusing to perform less academic and more menial tasks = Con demasiada frecuencia los bibliotecas son víctimas de la pereza negándose a realizar tareas más insignificantes y menos académicas.
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    a) <persona/actitud> servile, obsequious (frml)
    b) < trabajo> menial
    * * *
    = subservient, menial.

    Ex: Feminists have also indicated the demeaning and subservient features which characterise working relations between women and men as subordinates and superiors at work.

    Ex: The librarians too often fall prey to laziness by refusing to perform less academic and more menial tasks = Con demasiada frecuencia los bibliotecas son víctimas de la pereza negándose a realizar tareas más insignificantes y menos académicas.

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    1 ‹persona/actitud› servile, obsequious ( frml)
    2 ‹trabajo› menial
    * * *

    servil adjetivo
    a) ‹persona/actitud› servile, obsequious (frml)

    b) ‹ trabajo› menial

    servil adjetivo servile
    ' servil' also found in these entries:
    English:
    obsequious
    - servile
    - slavish
    - subservient
    - sycophantic
    * * *
    servil adj
    1. [obsequioso] servile
    2. [humilde] menial
    * * *
    adj servile
    * * *
    servil adj
    1) : servile, subservient
    2) : menial

    Spanish-English dictionary > servil

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  • flunkey — n. [Written also Flunky.] 1. Lackey, livery servant. 2. Mean fellow, mean spirited person, obsequious person, toady, snob, tuft hunter. 3. (Colloq., U. S.) Dupe (in buying stocks) …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • kiss-ass — noun An obsequious person …   Wiktionary

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  • scrape shoe — sycophant, one who flatters, obsequious person …   English contemporary dictionary

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  • lackey — noun (plural lackeys) 1》 a servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant. 2》 a servile or obsequious person. 3》 a brownish moth whose caterpillars live in groups in a silken shelter. [Malacosoma neustria.] verb (lackeys, lackeying,… …   English new terms dictionary

  • poodle — noun 1》 a dog of a breed with a curly coat that is usually clipped. 2》 Brit. a servile or obsequious person. verb Brit. informal move or travel in a leisurely manner. Origin C19: from Ger. Pudel(hund), from Low Ger. pud(d)eln splash in water (the …   English new terms dictionary

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