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How to use servility in a sentence

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The attitude of deference and servility of the senators facing them was no less nauseating.
He never regretted his lack of servility even though he lost the interview.
These privileges were the reward for the abnegation and servility demanded of Party functionaries.
This sort of exaggerated emphasis on good manners can be used to promote servility.
In no other does the spirit of servility and boot-licking display itself so openly and shamelessly.
But this statement is not a statement of servility, of making himself small.
The servility typically demanded of the occupation is one of the strongest violations of human rights.
The workers' militancy has been undercut by the servility of the trade-union leaders.
Amnesty International considers the ruling an appalling demonstration of servility to the government.
We think we assert ourselves by them, but it is they who assert the degree of servility to which they have reduced us.
It is this servility that has delayed a measure as basic as banning asbestos for so long.
There's a low hum of conversation, a genteel clink of polished silver on old china, waiters in tails exuding an air of quiet efficiency and old-fashioned servility.
All this mostly forces one to take ways to sequacity, servility, affectation or resignation.
In the Roman successor states of western Europe, the feudal system contained a hint of servility in the act of homage that liege lords found it unwise to presume upon.
These attitudes of servility and bowing and scraping will not help Canada construct a coherent policy.
Hotel Deluxe explores the rise of these grand palaces of relaxation and servility where real life, and occasionally morality, are suspended.
It corrodes every political system in which it is used, substituting fear for trust and servility for dignity.
The questionnaire asks questions about the identity of the persons interviewed, their condition of servility, and the identity of their master.
The new predominant service industries require servility over skill.
This formal world on the edge of transition is the perfect context for Helena, a warring mix of servility and spunkiness, whom George Bernard Shaw saw as a precursor to Ibsen's New Woman.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But it would be a great mistake to infer that this ostentatiousness of authority concealed real servility.
The republican New World is no less impested with servility than the monarchial Old.
Sal Karone remained in the background, but there was no servility in his manner.
Now, he was her humble petitioner, but this servility could be of no avail to save him from shame.
It was all patronage and protection on one side, and dependance and servility on the other.
A legion of hirelings were zealous to show their servility and loyalty to their lords.
Such a thing they would regard as in itself a symbol of servility.
Don't mistake coolness and poise for submissiveness and servility.
It was the sixth government he had served and all with servility.
With those coat-tails and that spinal complaint of servility?
He keeps his servility sweet by preserving it in the salt of vilification.
Her servility and fulsome compliments when Emmy was in prosperity were not more to that lady's liking.
He paused, and looked at Bartolomeo with that peculiar expression of the mere business lawyer, a mixture of servility with familiarity.
To this allocution the parliament replied with all servility.
If you wish to see what abysses servility can descend, present yourself before a Baden-Baden shopkeeper in the character of a Russian prince.
The crouching servility, usually so acceptable a quality in a slave, did not answer when manifested toward her.
To such depths of servility and degradation do apostate nations fall.
Thee is a mixture of servility and self-importance in his letter, which promises well.
When the rich tax the poor with servility and obsequiousness, they should consider the effect of men reputed to be the possessors of nature, on imaginative minds.
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