Genuflective

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    servile

    "But as with many journalists provided such access, the trade-off seems to have been an agreement signed in blood to conduct the interviews in the genuflective mode."

Example

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"But as with many journalists provided such access, the trade-off seems to have been an agreement signed in blood to conduct the interviews in the genuflective mode."

Etymology

From genuflect + -ive.

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