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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    "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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    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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    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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    Near him stood another man who wore a second lieutenant's insignia, yet hovered about the lower-ranking corporal with eager servility.  (source)
    servility = excessive submissiveness
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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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    It was just an innkeeper: friendly, servile, and so unassuming as to almost be invisible.  (source)
    servile = submissive
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