servile in the PONS Dictionary

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The use of one's body to give pleasure to others was servile.
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His tenure saw a strict regime that saw children taken from parents and housed in dormitories, and young adults trained for servile work.
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However, new employees did not show very servile and humble like the old assumptions of previous generations.
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This statement suggests that rules of custom are somehow inadequate, and that adherence to such rules is no more than servile obedience.
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The player is free to join any one of the servile groups and share common goals, or remain unaligned.
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Its servile state has now finally ceased.
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When a rescue party lands, he has put on his butler's uniform and resumed his servile duties, much to the discomfort of the others.
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A fox then denounces the man as a servile coward.
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Segregated from the rest, bound down to a code of behaviour, they lived a life appropriate to a servile state.
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Despite his aspirations, he is rendered servile by the mere sight of the count's gloves and boots.
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