servile
adjective
slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning.
servilely
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a word derived from
servile.
Example Sentences
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"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
Some of the harshest judgments had been pronounced by those who had faithfully, and sometimes servilely, worked under the Shah.
From Time Magazine Archive
She becomes fully, servilely dependent on Gennarino, who has been liberated by the isolation of the island.
From Time Magazine Archive
They sway individuals, communities, peoples, nations, making the latter even believe that they are having their own way when in fact they are most servilely doing the will of the powers.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
We study the taste of our friends, and endeavour to conform to it; but, in doing so, we ought rather to improve our own abilities than servilely to copy theirs.
From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft
