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
It is nice to find there are still some limits to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s servility.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2020
Privately, according to people who have observed his interactions with Trump, he treats the president with the sort of deference and servility more typical of a staff member than a cabinet member.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2020
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
In fact, he enjoyed the worm’s-eye view that servility offered to him.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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