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servile
adjective as in grovelling, subservient
Example Sentences
Critics saw negotiating with Attilla as servile, but they wrongly assumed that Emperor Theodosius II had a military alternative.
He argued that Black people are cursed by God to be “servile people” who are “doomed to perpetual slavery.”
"As I passed someone," Evans told the BBC, "I heard someone say: 'Uncle Tom'" - a slur used to disparage a black person considered servile towards white people.
Prometheus found himself chained to the side of a Scythian mountain for disobeying the gods, who believed their strength depended on keeping people in dumb and servile awe.
Neither do the echoes from his servile party, especially the Republicans vying to be his running mate.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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