(adj) compliant and obedient to authority; -G. B. Shaw, Example: editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
a. [ L. subserviens, -entis, p. pr. See Subserve. ] Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. [ 1913 Webster ]
Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster ]
These ranks of creatures are subservient one to another. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]
Their temporal ambition was wholly subservient to their proselytizing spirit. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
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