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

They don’t like the rough way the Stork treats Balram, whose practiced servility makes them a little uncomfortable.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021

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 word, of course, has another connotation: an aspect of servility.

From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2018

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