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UK
/sʌbsˈɜːviənt/
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[ US /səbˈsɝviənt/ ]
[ US /səbˈsɝviənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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serving or acting as a means or aid
instrumental in solving the crime -
compliant and obedient to authority
editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones -
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
she has become submissive and subservient
slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
a slavish yes-man to the party bosses
How To Use subservient In A Sentence
- She is expected to be subservient to her uncle.
- Those who feel inferior constantly sink down within themselves and appear subservient. Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
- Even in the United States, where the private media are almost invariably subservient to corporate interests, journalists generally do not cite polls by pollsters who have publicly partisan connections.
- But, in the end, it is a production in which raw passion is always subservient to intellectual cleverness.
- She did not wish to leave him, but she could not accept her subservient role.
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- The truth is that communism cannot exist without force because it depends so heavily upon squelching individual human ambition and making it subservient to the community.
- Service attendants consider themselves equal to their guests, and usually are not subservient.
- A form of marriage very popular among some groups then and now is the patriarchal, where the wife is subservient to the husband.