servile

Example Sentences

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In "Ya Bon" he criticised current and past African heads of state who he says have maintained a "servile relationship with the coloniser".

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Critics saw negotiating with Attilla as servile, but they wrongly assumed that Emperor Theodosius II had a military alternative.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

He loves it even more than obedience from people who've always been servile to him, like Giuliani.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2024

He could serve as a pet, a provocateur or a sob sister; a servile, wince-inducing stereotype or a sly underminer of various heterosexual norms.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2024

Spaulding represented a new kind of Southern black businessman, eschewing the servile role whites demanded of blacks.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson