humble service
Unpretentious helpful work
Humble service is work performed for others with modesty and without expectation of recognition or reward.
The phrase often appears in religious or formal contexts, suggesting devotion and selflessness: She dedicated her life to humble service of the poor.
It can also be used with gentle irony when someone downplays their contributions: At your humble service.
- modestLacking in pretension
- meekHumbly unassertive
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- selflessConcerned with others' welfare
- ministryClergy's work or state department
volunteer · lending a hand · giving back · obedient · lowly · duty · faithful · quiet · unassuming · stewardship · good works · charity · reverence · washing feet · bowing · sacrifice · calling · kindness
- Christian serviceministry, deacons, deaconess, deaconship, servanthood
- VincentianSt. Vincent de Paul
humble serviceself-promotion
Publicizing one's own merits
grandstanding · showboating · attention-seeking · vainglory · self-glorification
humble serviceself-aggrandizement
Inflating one's own status
opportunism · profiteering · greed · taking advantage · careerism
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