Abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant.
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Examples for "submissive "
Examples for "submissive "
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.
5 On the other hand, the Carthusians in London had proved more submissive .
1 It is the second of our vassal states to ask for help.
2 How long do you suppose we could escape becoming a vassal power?
3 Each principal vassal was a kind of sovereign, within his particular demesnes.
4 The Cid then became a vassal of the Moorish king of Saragossa.
5 The vassal of Otho had reduced the successor of Otho to vassalage.
1 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.
6 O how I hate it, this service, and the whole slavish life.
7 Despite all its slavish superstition, the Saxon Church was obnoxious to Rome.
8 They were taking too slavish an attitude toward Goniface and his judgments.
9 They seem to think there is no course open but slavish submission.
10 And let no man fancy that such submission shows a slavish spirit.
11 An' I reckon ye've done sought right slavish ter make amends ternight.
12 There is no art in the slavish copying of persons in real life.
13 But, in general, Collins is much less slavish than Warton in his imitation.
14 In the latter case, religion will be slavish and submission sullen.
15 Popova fawned upon the Governor-General, and seemed slavish in his devotion.
16 Treason and cowardice alone stir up The sullen currents of their slavish souls.
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