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

Unquestioned leaders and servile followers tell us why the German army marched into Russia without overcoats — the leader had decreed that the campaign would be victorious by autumn, and that was that.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2024

The effort succeeded; for an instant he unconsciously relapsed into his old servile manner, bent low before me, and actually fawned upon me as he replied:—

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker