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English to English adjective
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Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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compliant and obedient to authority | | Example: editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones
source: wordnet30
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serving or acting as a means or aid | | Example: instrumental in solving the crime
source: wordnet30
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abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | | Example: slavish devotion to her job ruled her life
a slavish yes-man to the party bosses
she has become submissive and subservient
source: wordnet30
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