submissive
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(a) inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination
- submissive servants
- a submissive reply
- replacing troublemakers with more submissive people
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(s) 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