subserviently
Example Sentences
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Because they didn’t want to be told who should rule them by the United States and be forced to act subserviently.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2012
As he spoke to Jobs, Google's CEO hunched his shoulders subserviently, the way criminals do when they're around the police.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2010
“Madam Lestrange,” murmured Tom, and as Hermione passed he inclined his head subserviently.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
In the first, Hormuzd, the good-god, ruled alone; then Ahriman, the bad-god, began to rule subserviently: in the third both ruled equally; and in the last, now current, Ahriman has gained the day.
From The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by Sir Richard Francis Burton
There was no reply to his knock, and he tapped again, and then timidly, and cringing subserviently, opened the door and stepped inside.
From In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis
