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Showing an excessive and self-lowering eagerness to obey.

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servile

The editor preferred honest disagreement to servile praise.
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Another volunteer showed a servile eagerness to obey, offering to abandon every personal commitment before anyone had asked for extra help.
From Courtesy Without Giving Away Judgment.
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