Slavish
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

TAME
Very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes

MEAN
Characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

HARD
(of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"

BASE
Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"

5 letters

ROUGH
Of the margin of a leaf shape; having the edge cut or fringed or scalloped

HEAVY
A serious (or tragic) role in a play

APISH
Being or given to servile imitation

6 letters

RUGGED
Having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface; "furrowed fields"; "his furrowed face lit by a warming smile"

MENIAL
A domestic servant

KNOTTY
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

ABUSED
Subjected to cruel treatment; "an abused wife"

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SUBJECT
Something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"

SUBDUED
Not brilliant or glaring; "the moon cast soft shadows"; "soft pastel colors"; "subdued lighting"

OPEROSE
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"

MISUSED
Used incorrectly or carelessly or for an improper purpose; "misused words are often laughable but one weeps for misused talents"

FAWNING
Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

SERVILE
Submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior; "spoke in a servile tone"; "the incurably servile housekeeper"; "servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work"

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WRETCHED
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

UNMANNED
Lacking a crew; "an unmanned satellite to Mars"

TRAMPLED

OBEISANT

DOWNTROD

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STRENUOUS
Taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance; "his final, straining burst of speed"; "a strenuous task"; "your willingness after these six arduous days to remain here"- F.D.Roosevelt

SPINELESS
Lacking spiny processes; "spineless fins"

OVERBORNE

OPPRESSED
Burdened psychologically or mentally; "laden with grief"; "oppressed by a sense of failure"

MISERABLE
Contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

LABORIOUS
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace"

IMITATIVE
Not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

HENPECKED
Harassed by persistent nagging

EMULATIVE

DIFFICULT
Hard to control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"

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UNORIGINAL
Not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham

UNINSPIRED
Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"

TYRANNIZED

REGIMENTED
Strictly controlled

GROVELLING
Totally submissive

GROUNDDOWN

FORMIDABLE
Extremely impressive in strength or excellence; "a formidable opponent"; "the challenge was formidable"; "had a formidable array of compositions to his credit"; "the formidable army of brains at the Prime Minister's disposal"

BROWBEATEN

OBSEQUIOUS
Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

SUBMISSIVE
Inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"

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SUBSERVIENT
Compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw

DOWNTRODDEN
Abused or oppressed by people in power

13 letters

ORDEREDAROUND

16 letters

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