compliant and obedient to authority; editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones-G. B. Shaw

serving or acting as a means or aid; instrumental in solving the crime

[ Syn: implemental , instrumental ]

abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant; slavish devotion to her job ruled her life; a slavish yes-man to the party bosses- S.H.Adams; she has become submissive and subservient

[ Syn: slavish , submissive ]