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| menial(inferior, compliant, submissive, obedient, deferential) | |
| milquetoast(nervous, shy, fearful) | |
| modest(nervous, shy, fearful) | |
| mousing | |
| obedient(compliant, submissive) | |
| passive(compliant, submissive, obedient) | |
| praising(flattering, sycophantic) | |
| pussyfooting | |
| quailing | |
| quaking | |
| resigned(inferior, compliant, submissive, obedient, deferential) | |
| reticent(nervous, shy, fearful) | |
| rucking | |
| shaky(nervous, shy, fearful) | |
| slave to(expression, adjective, inferior, compliant, submissive) | |
| smarmy(adjective, flattering, sycophantic, obsequious) | |
| snivelling | |
| spiritless(nervous, shy, fearful) | |
| stooping | |
| subject(inferior, compliant, submissive, obedient, deferential) |
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