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
But what Raisi lacked in charisma, he more than made up for in subservience; the man, frankly, was a toady doing the supreme leader’s bidding.
From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024
To women doing the hard work of keeping house and raising the kids without hewing to some ridiculous notion of subservience, being called a #TradWife, even as a joke, might not be.
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2023
I could not make subservience an automatic part of my behavior.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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Black Boy
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