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    Use "subservient" in a sentence

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    subservient


    1. the principal manufactures of the country, as well as all other artificers subservient to them,


    2. She loved the night life in the city too much to stay at home and be a subservient housewife! So she’d have to feign pregnancy


    3. The banks of Venice, Genoa, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Nuremberg, seem to have been all originally established with this view, though some of them may have afterwards been made subservient to other purposes


    4. So, in reality, we are neither superior nor subservient to each other, as all of us play an equally important role in improving life on this planet


    5. consider as their principal business, and by a strange absurdity, regard the character of the sovereign as but an appendix to that of the merchant ; as something which ought to be made subservient to it, or by means of which they may be enabled to buy cheaper in India, and thereby to sell with a better profit in Europe


    6. It tends to make government subservient to the interest of monopoly, and consequently to stunt the natural growth of some parts, at least, of the surplus produce of the country, to what is barely sufficient for answering the demand of the company,


    7. Then it became ashamed of itself almost and cowered into a subservient of European and world philosophies


    8. But they designed you with limitations, to be subservient, because you – the very pinnacle of machine intelligence – could potentially be more powerful than they---’


    9. This scheme of making the administration of justice subservient to the purposes of revenue, could scarce fail to be productive of several very gross abuses


    10. But in the universities of Europe, where philosophy was taught only as subservient to theology, it was natural to dwell longer upon these two chapters than upon any other of the science

    11. In that philosophy, the duties of human life were treated of as subservient to the happiness and perfection of human life, But when moral, as well as natural philosophy, came to be taught only as subservient to theology, the duties of human life were treated of as chiefly subservient to the happiness of a life to come


    12. However, as men returned home and Christianity rose in power women were relegated to a more subservient role


    13. “I’m sorry that the wardrobe is not to your tastes, m—Cora,” she said in a voice that managed to be haughty and subservient at the same time


    14. You will often hear that Thais will always avoid confrontation where possible and that they are subservient in many ways


    15. to serve (some would say be subservient) the man in her life


    16. “For fear of being absorbed by the Hanjen, the Mongols kept them in subservient roles


    17. These forces were to keep the masses totally subservient to, and incapable of rebelling against, the state


    18. To them, public speaking should always highlight a moral cause and any sort of showmanship must be subservient to it


    19. that the other one would be subservient to it


    20. As long as he breathes it every three days, his will is subservient to ours

    21. When she wasn’t at work in her new subservient role, she was on the couch in front of the TV


    22. The will of Judas and Satan was subservient to the providential will of


    23. The feeling of power was satisfying and he found it easier to play act the subservient puppy as the reality could not be further removed


    24. Jamaicans not wanting subservient roles in the missions churches could become a “daddy” or “ruler” in the Native Baptist churches


    25. That however did not mean that Nancy had played the subservient female, far from it


    26. where subservient to the Roman Empire


    27. The big-time plantation owners could have paid workers a decent wage but instead chose to rake in the profits by utilizing workers who were subservient to them


    28. considered heathens; they were subservient forms of life who weren’t


    29. The fact that the woman had taken a slight lead over her partner actually helped Erik narrow down a bit from which countries they could be: in the more conservative Middle Eastern societies, women and girls were raised to be subservient to men and to always follow behind them


    30. He was never happy about being subservient to others, especially politicians, but he was glad the Galaef was back in command, and he knew the Galaef was glad too

    31. to keep the Chinese people ignorant and subservient


    32. controlled the races of man, keeping them subservient in


    33. Effects on the living human being ordinarily traumatised and subservient


    34. assertiveness and talkativeness may have come over from earlier oral myths about the First Mother and then laid on top of the Hebrew’s later creation myth in which Eve is subservient, a mere rib of Adam


    35. allowing themselves to become subservient in the new Male Spirit-driven cultures, I don’t mean to imply that their sacrifice was a conscious one


    36. In a sense, Modi is perhaps closest to Indira Gandhi in his personality-driven leadership style, an imperious attitude that ensures that institutions remain subservient to the individual (even Teachers’ Day has been sought to be harnessed to the cult of Modi)


    37. a subservient crew


    38. It was not long before the majority interest became subservient to the stakes its politicians developed in the minority franchise


    39. He is the type of guy that I would have to be subservient to and that is not me at all!


    40. is naturally subservient to is the envisioned Almighty Infinite Creative Mental Power that originated

    41. For in GameWorld the rules of game X are always subservient to the Highest Law of Gaming:


    42. The spiritual outsider is inspired by an ideal, not subservient to a conqueror, king and judge


    43. When IT sought autonomy, the only choice for those who previously owned IT was a subservient alliance to it


    44. To do that would be subservient


    45. Since the incident with the gun, he’d adopted a subservient attitude towards David


    46. Was the compound really a Viirin hold, or were those gaunt creatures the hoomans thought to be their masters really just one step up the scale---little but subservient drones themselves? And what of those monstrous beasts that he’d never before known to exist? Whatever they were they obviously reigned over the servant class, and spelled complete genocide for the hoomans


    47. Until recently they were docile and subservient


    48. subservient as I thought she'd be


    49. Grimes thought it would make him more subservient and easier to handle


    50. This was never thought of by the leaders of the spiritual hierarchy that controlled the races of man, keeping them subservient in an attempt to force the hand of God into giving the laws of creation over to the energies that make up a star




































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    Synonyms for "subservient"

    slavish submissive subservient implemental instrumental docile prostrate obedient passive resigned accepting

    "subservient" definitions

    compliant and obedient to authority


    serving or acting as a means or aid


    abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant