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servile

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Showing an excessive and self-lowering eagerness to obey.

The editor preferred honest disagreement to servile praise.

Dictionary practice example.

Another volunteer showed a servile eagerness to obey, offering to abandon every personal commitment before anyone had asked for extra help.