the man had the deferential attitude of someone who had been a servant his entire life
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abusive, insulting, offensive;
belittling, demeaning, depreciative, depreciatory, derogatory, disparaging;
reverent, reverential, venerating, worshipful;
fawning, groveling (or grovelling), kowtowing, obsequious, servile, subservient, sycophantic, toadying;
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