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Synonyms:
- biddable, adherent, acquiescent, enthralled, devoted, downtrodden, subservient, subjected, compliant, faithful, feudal, unfranchised, supporting, subordinate, groveling, supine, deferential, junior, cringing, meek, enslaved, respectful, subject, kowtowing, submissive, yielding, slave, base, legalistic, dutiful, slavelike, allegiant, subjugated, conforming, beggarly, browbeaten, under, dependent, good, obsequious, curtsying, complaisant, attending, genuflecting, humble, law-abiding, concurrent, willing, obedient, over, cooperative, slavish, constrained, menial, loyal, docile, deferent, inferior, bound
Examples:
- - Torture, which had always been illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May, 1610. Everything now depended on the event of the King's military operations against the Scots. - "The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)", Thomas Babington Macaulay
- - The Fables are the last utterance made by the speech of Terence: it is singular that this intimately Roman style should have begun and ended with two authors of servile birth and foreign blood. - "Latin Literature", J. W. Mackail
- - It appears that he made his sketch from one model; and the habit he had of drawing exactly from the form before him appears by his making all the figures with the same cap, such as his model then happened to wear; so servile a copyist was this great man, even at a time when he was allowed to be at his highest pitch of excellence. - "Seven Discourses on Art", Joshua Reynolds
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