subservient

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: He made every labor subservient to this noble end.
• keep: And he refreshingly keeps the message subservient to the comedy.

Modifies a noun

• role: Crichton, the butler, performs a subservient role.
• position: His motivation was to prove that the creators of ancient Egyptian civilization were white and that blacks existed only in subservient positions.
• relationship: Most specifically, the subservient relationship with George Bush has been the real cause of Tony Blair's downfall.
• woman: Good idea for subservient women but would not remain secret for long among emancipated women.
• status: By the time the English took over the administration, the Germans had emancipated most vassal chiefdoms from that subservient status.
• partner: However, the other members of the EU are not themselves prepared to play the role of subservient partners.

Modifying Another Word

• totally: For training needs to be totally subservient to service pressures would be inappropriate.
• entirely: Married womens ' lack of property rights made them ciphers in economic and social terms, entirely subservient to their husbands ' will.
• too: Members of the General Assembly lack initiative, and are too subservient in the face of American power.
• not: The trouble is, I'm not really suited to hotel work, I'm just not subservient enough.
• always: To persist in the view that nurses are always subservient to doctors is to do the profession a disservice.
• completely: In these traditional southern Arabian works, the human figure has no life of its own it is completely subservient.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The institutions of state became subservient to the whims of Number 10.
• remain: Such a revision will mean the poorest countries will remain subservient.
• make: Everything was made subservient to ostentation, even wounds, which were often subsequently enlarged for the purpose of boasting a broader scar.
• render: Those weaker or less cunning than himself he could either disregard or render subservient.