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subservient

sub·ser·vient

US/sʌˈbsɜrviʌnt/ rare

adjective

1.

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
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2.

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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Origin

From Latin subserviens, present active of subservio (“to serve under”).

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