servility

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for servility
Noun
  • Coven is one of the tighter narratives the series has mustered, with its true horror lying in the realities of slavery in the American South.
    James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
  • While the issues roiling America today may be more nuanced than slavery, there are still stark contrasts—forces of democracy and authoritarianism that can pretty fairly be described as right and wrong.
    Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But the character’s state of servitude is largely hidden in clumsy blocking.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Whether a cell in 1598 played a part in conceiving of the scrawny, hobbled hidalgo with a cardboard visor and a bent lance is arguable, but Cervantes’ far more traumatic enslavement from 1571 until 1576 must have formed his intimate comprehension of the difference between freedom and servitude.
    Ed Simon September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Servility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servility. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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