subservience
Example Sentences
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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
It turns out that most people don’t want to be forced to be free, especially when that freedom means subservience to one’s supposed liberator.
From Slate • Jan. 16, 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
Women exchanged the maids’ uniforms of subservience for the white chadors of emancipation.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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