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subserviently

adverb as in obsequiously

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Example Sentences

Many airlines glamorise their female flight attendants, imposing strict makeup and beauty regimes and encouraging them–however subtly–to act subserviently.

If it weren’t for family difficulties or a lack of money, who would subserviently shine shoes like that?”

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I saw his massive figure in the doorway, and the big, prolific woman moved subserviently about the room.

Parliament met, and subserviently voted him a subsidy, conscious of favours to come.

He looked, and was, a typical Prussian, subserviently polite to his superiors and pointedly arrogant to those who were not.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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