Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a deferential manner; with deference.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With deference.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
deferential manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a servile manner
- adverb in a respectfully deferential manner
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Examples
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When he's allowed to complain to sympathetic reporters in the aftermath of his corporation's crime wave that he's not being treated deferentially enough, he's doing extremely well.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Want to Solve All your Problems, Rupert Murdoch? Become A Banker. RJ 2011
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These days the self-congratulatory motto above his blog is “Of No Party or Clique,” but in fact Sullivan belongs to the party of Mearsheimer and the clique of Walt (whom he cites frequently and deferentially), to the herd of fearless dissidents who proclaim in all seriousness, without in any way being haunted by the history of such an idea, that Jews control Washington.
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When I told Pricilla, a Durban-born 24-year-old of Zulu ethnicity who is working here as a volunteer, that I've been attending these U.N. climate conferences since Kyoto in 1996, she deferentially asked me, "Sir, why has it taken so long to find a solution to just this one single matter?"
Jonathan Wootliff: Breakthrough at Climate Talks... But Why on Earth Has It Taken So Long? Jonathan Wootliff 2011
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When he's allowed to complain to sympathetic reporters in the aftermath of his corporation's crime wave that he's not being treated deferentially enough, he's doing extremely well.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Want to Solve All your Problems, Rupert Murdoch? Become A Banker. RJ 2011
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When I told Pricilla, a Durban-born 24-year-old of Zulu ethnicity who is working here as a volunteer, that I've been attending these U.N. climate conferences since Kyoto in 1996, she deferentially asked me, "Sir, why has it taken so long to find a solution to just this one single matter?"
Jonathan Wootliff: Breakthrough at Climate Talks... But Why on Earth Has It Taken So Long? Jonathan Wootliff 2011
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When I told Pricilla, a Durban-born 24-year-old of Zulu ethnicity who is working here as a volunteer, that I've been attending these U.N. climate conferences since Kyoto in 1996, she deferentially asked me, "Sir, why has it taken so long to find a solution to just this one single matter?"
Jonathan Wootliff: Breakthrough at Climate Talks... But Why on Earth Has It Taken So Long? Jonathan Wootliff 2011
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We left them to their work and deferentially gave a park police officer our statements.
Teresa Marchese: If Only You Knew Teresa Marchese 2011
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We left them to their work and deferentially gave a park police officer our statements.
Teresa Marchese: If Only You Knew Teresa Marchese 2011
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When I told Pricilla, a Durban-born 24-year-old of Zulu ethnicity who is working here as a volunteer, that I've been attending these U.N. climate conferences since Kyoto in 1996, she deferentially asked me, "Sir, why has it taken so long to find a solution to just this one single matter?"
Jonathan Wootliff: Breakthrough at Climate Talks... But Why on Earth Has It Taken So Long? Jonathan Wootliff 2011
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As teenagers, Adrian was the "serious" one among Tony's gang of friends—that word is used often in the novel to distinguish between those who bravely confront life's profound questions and those who, like Tony and, Tony suggests, almost the entire English middle class, are content to live quietly and deferentially.
Shuffling Along The Abyss Sam Sacks 2011
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