subservience
Example Sentences
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It also just seems so weird, because it’s all about showing subservience, or showing that you have some loyalty.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
It helped undo the damage done by the subservience in “I Dream of Jeannie.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
More and more women have been given a choice about how many children they will bear and that has opened up avenues to different lives, less confined to motherhood and economic subservience to men.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024
The prevalence of interracial marriage, plus the rare spectacle of white subservience and Indigenous largesse, is the kind of inversion of the social statuo quo that clearly fascinates Scorsese.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2023
I could not make subservience an automatic part of my behavior.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
