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Dictionary definition for: Subservient

1. (s) compliant and obedient to authority; "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw

2. (s) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life" "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams; "she has become submissive and subservient"

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