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Meanings of submissive in English
Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant.
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Examples for "subservient"
Examples for "subservient"
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Yet when Messi returned, Neymar was happy to return to being subservient.
2
The Revenue was to be subservient to the greater and national factor.
3
In other words, plot is subservient to character and storytelling to ideology.
4
Surely the stomach should be subservient to the mind; but it isn't.
5
Judges subservient to Somerset declared Wriothesley guilty of having abused his office.
1
The fear surely is not that of shivering dread or slavish terror.
2
Yet in such loyalty there was no trace of a slavish spirit.
3
Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion.
4
Mother imagines that I am the slavish echo of my brother Victor.
5
She has dared to impose slavish tasks upon thee, born in freedom.
Inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination.
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Usage of submissive in English
1
After many seconds Lola said in the same weak, submissive voice, Yes.
2
The ministers of the Church were rendered submissive to the civil power.
3
To sit in submissive obedience seemed unreasonable; to fly from Italy impossible.
4
She could be submissive in appearance while still persisting in her aims.
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On the other hand, the Carthusians in London had proved more submissive.
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Mary began obediently; she had never been so submissive in her life.
7
His ideal woman-thewoman of the early Victorian period-wassubmissive and clinging.
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I went in a sullen state, stunned and for the moment submissive.
9
I cycle between self-assured and submissive, and China Doll reiterates this contradiction.
10
A first-time submissive is usually easy to handle and eager to please.
11
I ceased, and with submissive look awaited the answer of the Genius.
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The small eyes of the submissive Wachita watched him with vague solicitude.
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The docile or submissive was not the remarkable element in Nina's nature.
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We just need to teach them we won't be submissive to them.
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In Abraham's time the people were submissive, and the world was happy.
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Yet the Roman Catholics of America are very submissive and very sincere.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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