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• a  submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
  spoke in a servile tone
  the incurably servile housekeeper
  servile tasks such as floor scrubbing and barn work
• s  relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
  Brown's attempt at servile insurrection
  the servile wars of Sicily
  servile work

• Few of the world's political leaders could boast of a more servile press than the United Arab Republic's President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
• The document whiplashed him as cowardly and violent, servile and uppity.
• A servile and laborious process, but one that opened wallets across Japan: Esperanza's sales reached $95 million last year, up 20% from 1999.

• unservile

News & Articles

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• WATCH: North Korean propaganda video uses Edward Snowden to attack U.S.
  The NSA leaks highlight South Korea's "servile" relationship with America, the video claims
  July 9, 2013 - The Week via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Theodore Roosevelt in Arizona Republic
  President Theodore Roosevelt said, "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
• Anton Kuerti in Toronto Star
  The unbelievable war crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza ...... it makes me ashamed to be a Jew,Kuerti said at the Toronto news conference. "The servile way in which Canada is supporting the US position - basically it's all Hamas's...
• Christopher Hitchens in Prince George Citizen
  There are quite a lot of good conservatives and free marketeers and so on who think Christianity, in particular, is servile and irrational,Hitchens says.