SUBSERVIENT in a Sentence

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The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUBSERVIENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
subservient
 a.  behaving like slave; subordinate in capacity or function
Classic Sentence:
1  The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  She thought she was utterly subservient and living for others.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
3  It was at this period I learned that the destiny which seemed subservient to every wish formed by Napoleon, had bestowed on him a son, named king of Rome even in his cradle.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
4  But a wise prince would rather choose to employ those who practise the last of these methods; because such zealots prove always the most obsequious and subservient to the will and passions of their master.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VI.
5  I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of neighbours.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
6  He became a glorified floor-walker, greeting the men with new poise, no longer coyly subservient to pretty women.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  Many of the men sprang forward, officiously, to offer their services, either from the hope of the reward, or from that cringing subserviency which is one of the most baleful effects of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
8  They despise the submission and subserviency of the Southern Negroes, but offer no other means by which a poor and oppressed minority can exist side by side with its masters.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
9  The words, and the movement which accompanied them, combined to startle Lily out of the state of tranced subservience into which she had insensibly slipped.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
10  His attitude became one of good-humored subservience and tacit adoration.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
11  This was the easier, in that she was perfect mistress of that diplomatic art which unites the utmost subservience of manner with the utmost inflexibility as to measure.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  For the Lilliputians think nothing can be more unjust, than for people, in subservience to their own appetites, to bring children into the world, and leave the burthen of supporting them on the public.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
13  Here, as elsewhere, he was surrounded by an atmosphere of subservience to his wealth, and being in the habit of lording it over these people, he treated them with absent-minded contempt.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III
Example Sentence:
1  She did not wish to leave him, but she could not accept her subservient role.
2  His wife refused to accept a traditional subservient role.
3  The press was accused of being subservient to the government.
4  He was proud and dignified; he refused to be subservient to anyone.