servile
excessively submissive or like a servant
Root
- serv / serve: serve, service, or be in service
Other words with the serv / serve root
- serve: to help or work for someone or something
- service: help or work done for someone
- subservient: excessively submissive or serving under another
Servile keeps serve visible: service has lost its backbone and turned into submission.
His servile praise made the room trust him less.
Servile does not mean simply helpful. It carries a lowered posture: serving as if one's own judgment has been handed over.