Sample Sentences for
servile
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    A servile constable brought them on a plastic tray...  (source)
    servile = acting as a submissive servant
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    Obligingly Gyuri stepped forward, opened it, set it down with a servile bow of his head, and stepped away for the old guy to look at it.  (source)
    servile = submissive
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    A field of elephant grass weighted with wind, bowing under the stir of a helicopter's blades, the grass dark and servile, bending low, but then rising straight again when the chopper went away.  (source)
    servile = submissive (as though bowing to the helicopter)
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    Just the sight of her from the bathroom door was enough to revive the torture of school, the unbearable boredom of daily Mass, the terror of examinations, the servile diligence of the novices, all of that life distorted by the prism of spiritual poverty.  (source)
    servile = excessive submissiveness
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    ...the house-elf's attitude of creeping servility looked convincing.  (source)
    servility = excessive submissiveness and eagerness to serve
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    Yes, but I had only the credit of servilely copying such sentences as I was ashamed to put my name to.  (source)
    servilely = demeaningly obeying commands
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    Tom's mother entered now, closing the door behind her, and approached her son with all the wheedling and supplication servilities that fear and interest can impart to the words and attitudes of the born slave.†  (source)
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    From his arms next issued the Kshatriya, or warriors; from his breast, the seat of life, came the Vaisya, or producers—shepherds, farmers, merchants; from his foot, in sign of degradation, sprang the Sudra, or serviles, doomed to menial duties for the other classes—serfs, domestics, laborers, artisans.†  (source)
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    "Are you guilty?" said Winston. "Of course I'm guilty!" cried Parsons with a servile glance at the telescreen. "You don't think the Party would arrest an innocent man, do you? ... Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing,"  (source)
    servile = excessively submissive
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    He heard the fawning servility in his own voice but was unable to control it.  (source)
    servility = excessive submissiveness (showing a lack self-respect)
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    JOE—(taps Lewis on the shoulder—servilely apologetic) If you objects to my sittin' here, Captain, just tell me and I pulls my freight.†  (source)
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    His wife had adored him once on a time; she had bored him with a thousand servilities that had only estranged him the more.†  (source)
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    The effort succeeded, for an instant he unconsciously relapsed into his old servile manner, bent low before me, and actually fawned upon me as he replied.  (source)
    servile = submissive
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