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Meanings of subservient in inglês

Serving or acting as a means or aid.

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Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant.

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Subservient.

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Usage of subservient in inglês
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Yet when Messi returned, Neymar was happy to return to being subservient.
The Guardian
2
The Revenue was to be subservient to the greater and national factor.
King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855
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In other words, plot is subservient to character and storytelling to ideology.
The Irish Times
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Surely the stomach should be subservient to the mind; but it isn't.
Molly Bawn
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Judges subservient to Somerset declared Wriothesley guilty of having abused his office.
The tudors: the complete story of england's most notorious dynas...
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The Governor and his subservient Council acted both as prosecutors and judges.
Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
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Heretofore, in America, pugilism has been made subservient to the common schools.
Remarks
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The purpose of a multilateral forum is to be subservient and subordinate.
Reuters
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I dislike unnecessary formality and I don't want them to be subservient.
The Irish Times
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It's putting me on a level of someone subservient with a smile.
Ebony
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Her thoughts had, in a curious way, become subservient to her actions.
There was a King in Egypt
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In other respects, it did not show itself altogether subservient to Northumberland.
England under the Tudors
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It's a relationship that is not as subservient as it sometimes sounds.
The Guardian
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He pretends to be subservient to papa, but he is the master.
A Perilous Secret
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How marvellous, because they were in an ancillary and a subservient role.
The Irish Times
16
In Indhopal, a woman had always been expected to be perfectly subservient.
Worldwinder
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United Kingdom
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