slavishness

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Noun
  • Russia has not budged one inch from its demand for total capitulation and subservience from Kyiv, and has only increased its missile barrage on Ukrainian cities.
    Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
  • In other ways, this passive social robot design aligns with paternalistic standards that link assistance to subservience.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.
    Lesley M.M. Blume, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Sammy’s awareness of his mother’s infidelity, his father’s complaisance, and how both were relieved by his creative Boy Scout merit-badge projects and fantasies requires a separate article.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Nov. 2022
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“Slavishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slavishness. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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