servile
adjective
slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning.
servilely
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a word derived from
servile.
Example Sentences
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She becomes fully, servilely dependent on Gennarino, who has been liberated by the isolation of the island.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the harshest judgments had been pronounced by those who had faithfully, and sometimes servilely, worked under the Shah.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Doing the McCosh walk" advises young men to arch their backs, protrude their chests, ignore less fortunate friends while grinning servilely at prominent classmates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Are you going to submit servilely to injustice, in the vain hope that some one else will win Justice for you?
From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards
It was a plastic and noble language, capable of rendering faithfully, yet not servilely, the Greek Bible and Greek fathers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
