"subservient" in the adjective sense
1. subservient
compliant and obedient to authority
"editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones"-G. B. Shaw
2. implemental, instrumental, subservient
serving or acting as a means or aid
"instrumental in solving the crime"
3. slavish, subservient, submissive
abjectly submissive characteristic of a slave or servant
"slavish devotion to her job ruled her life"
"a slavish yes-man to the party bosses"- S.H.Adams
"she has become submissive and subservient"
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