(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
(adj) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; ; - S.H.Adams, Syn.submissive, subservient, Example: slavish devotion to her job ruled her life; a slavish yes-man to the party bosses; she has become submissive and subservient
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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