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Definition

submissive — typically excessively so (so submissive or eager to serve and please that one seems to have no self-respect)

or:

relating to the work that requires obeying demeaning commands

or:

slave-like or relating to slaves

You might want to remember this as sounding similar to servant. Both words come from the Latin word for slave (servus).

We expect our waiters to give world-class service, but not to be so servile they sacrifice their human dignity.

servile = excessively submissive

The country has a servile press.

servile = excessively submissive

She acknowledged her submission in a servile tone.

servile = excessively submissive

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt (26th US President)

servile = excessively submissive

He heard the fawning servility in his own voice but was unable to control it.
Stephen King -- The Shining

servility = excessive submissiveness (showing a lack self-respect)

I grew to like these mountain people, silent, reserved, never servile...
Jean Rhys -- Wide Sargasso Sea

servile = excessively submissive

never had he been so servile at the search but now he wanted to show he was innocent—Come on, frisk me!
Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

servile = submissive (in obeying demeaning commands)

He obeyed then, but the strength of his desire protested against the servility of his conduct;
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary

servility = submissiveness

"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,"
George Orwell -- 1984

servile = excessively submissive

From imposition of strict laws to free
Acceptance of large grace; from servile fear
To filial;
John Milton -- Paradise Lost

servile = excessively submissive — with no self-respect

Yes, but I had only the credit of servilely copying such sentences as I was ashamed to put my name to.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility

servilely = demeaningly obeying commands

She also is dressed with great neatness, and her white, delicate hands betray very little acquaintance with servile toil.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin

servile = appropriate for a servant or slave

I did not, however, aim at gaining his favour by paying any servile respect to him, but, after some time, took this other method.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

servile = excessively submissive

The lieutenant took a look at the bowed servile figure on the bench.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory

servile = submissive

I find myself liking only those who are servile.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

servile = submissive and eager to serve and please

I call you servile ministers
William Shakespeare -- King Lear

servile = submissive

But what they want though it smells of death and can be made of India-rubber, at least is not alive, has no will, is servile and won't revolt!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

servile = submissive

...thou art servile to all the...
William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure

servile = submissive

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.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

servile = submissive

Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation!
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

servility = behavior of someone who is so excessively submissive or eager to please that they seem to lack self-respect

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