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subservient

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1. subservient - Adjective

2. subservient - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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instrumental in solving the crime Source: Internet

slavish devotion to her job ruled her life Source: Internet

a slavish yes-man to the party bosses Source: Internet

she has become submissive and subservient Source: Internet

editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones Source: Internet

Aeneas is consistently subservient to the gods, even if it is contradictory to his own desires, as he responds to one such divine command, "I sail to Italy not of my own free will." Source: Internet

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