subserviently

Example Sentences

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Because they didn’t want to be told who should rule them by the United States and be forced to act subserviently.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2012

As he spoke to Jobs, Google's CEO hunched his shoulders subserviently, the way criminals do when they're around the police.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2010

“Madam Lestrange,” murmured Tom, and as Hermione passed he inclined his head subserviently.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

There was no reply to his knock, and he tapped again, and then, timidly, and cringing subserviently, opened the door and stepped inside.

From Ranson's Folly by Davis, Richard Harding

Pedro was approaching them subserviently, a humble, bobbing head betokening his anxiety to please the fine folk.

From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Goddard, Charles