subservient

Example Sentences

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"Like Musharraf, he has a subservient prime minister and the authority to reshape the army's structure," he said.

From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025

"This technology is utterly meaningless without the artist at the centre of it; the technology needs to ultimately be subservient to the artist," says Mr Talukdar.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025

Here is a legend who spent her life subservient to her art, unable to conjure the miracles that defined her existence.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2024

This term has nothing to do with being a “mammy” or a “nanny” or a subservient caregiver.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024

This wasn’t like the small group of subservient workers we’d known at the Academy or the doublefile inmates from the roomier halls of Coxsackie.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover