subservience
Example Sentences
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It also just seems so weird, because it’s all about showing subservience, or showing that you have some loyalty.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
It helped undo the damage done by the subservience in “I Dream of Jeannie.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
If anything, her role as a path-breaker created expectations that far exceeded the inherent subservience of her vice presidential position.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2024
More and more women have been given a choice about how many children they will bear and that has opened up avenues to different lives, less confined to motherhood and economic subservience to men.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024
I could not make subservience an automatic part of my behavior.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
