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 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
On July 27, for example, Steve Inskeep, the host of NPR’s Morning Edition, conducted a servile interview in which he sat meekly by as Allen spewed unalloyed hogwash.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023
And remembering Kamala’s words, he was never servile to the merchant, but compelled him to treat him as an equal and even more than his equal.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing servile
Julius Caesar
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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