servility

Example Sentences

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The abject servility with which Pierce’s Willy rushes to retrieve the lighter that Howard has dropped on the floor, speaks volumes about powerlessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2022

It is nice to find there are still some limits to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s servility.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2020

Privately, according to people who have observed his interactions with Trump, he treats the president with the sort of deference and servility more typical of a staff member than a cabinet member.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2020

Menial piecework tasks, parceled out through apps that force workers into 12-hour days in the hopes they can eke out a living through a lifetime of endless servility.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2020

The man's servility disgusted him, and so did his cheese-white hands with their dirty nails, and the stained teeth he revealed in his constant grin.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw