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Subservient

adjective

Compliant and obedient to authority.

Serving or acting as a means or aid. Synonyms: implemental, instrumental.

Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant. Synonyms: slavish, submissive. "A slavish yes-man to the party bosses" , "She has become submissive and subservient"

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... prided themselves on their aloofness are already fighting over European interests. In Europe every nation's hand is raised against its neighbors, and every people's hand against its ruling class. Every government is making its policy subservient to the needs of the future war which is universally looked upon as an unavoidable outcome of the Versailles peace. Imperialism and militarism are striking roots in soil where they were hitherto unknown. In a word, Prussianism, instead of being destroyed, has been openly ...

— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... the picture; it shews the pleasing features, and throws a veil over the blemishes: Mankind are naturally pleased with what gratifies their vanity; and vanity, like all other passions of the human heart, may be rendered subservient ...

— The Old English Baron • Clara Reeve

... only active in constructing and exploring in the spirit world, but he is also engaged in inventions. Most of the discoveries that have lessened manual labor and made gross matter subservient to man's use originated in the land of spirits. The inventor finds full field for his ...

— Strange Visitors • Henry J. Horn

... expect to realize all our wishes, we must distinguish those which claim the rank of wants. We must separate the fanciful from the real, or at least make the one subservient to the other. ...

— Tales And Novels, Vol. 8 • Maria Edgeworth

... from bad to worse in the Morley cabin. Martin forgot his prayers and ambitions; he grew subservient to Mary and never strove against her, even when her wrath and temper were directed toward him and Sandy. Discredited and disliked by his neighbours, flouted by the woman who had used him for her own gain, the man became a detestable and pitiable creature. Sandy endured the blows and ratings ...

— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock

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