servility
Example Sentences
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The abject servility with which Pierce’s Willy rushes to retrieve the lighter that Howard has dropped on the floor, speaks volumes about powerlessness.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2022
They don’t like the rough way the Stork treats Balram, whose practiced servility makes them a little uncomfortable.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021
Menial piecework tasks, parceled out through apps that force workers into 12-hour days in the hopes they can eke out a living through a lifetime of endless servility.
From Salon • Jan. 7, 2020
The word, of course, has another connotation: an aspect of servility.
From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2018
A complex man—as those caught between eras often are—Spaulding removed the grinning mask of servility, but could never quite put it aside.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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