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[ adjective ] compliant and obedient to authority
Examples "editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw Used in print (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit - when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands - two purposes were served : Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will , and law became a rational system for implementing that will , for serving conscious goals , for embodying the `` public policy '' . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant
Synonyms Examples "slavish devotion to her job ruled her life" "a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams "she has become submissive and subservient" Related terms |
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