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- adverb Submissively or obediently.
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Examples
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The dogs, having recovered from the arrival of a newcomer, followed docilely at her heels and arranged themselves around the room.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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The dogs, having recovered from the arrival of a newcomer, followed docilely at her heels and arranged themselves around the room.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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The Social Democrats went docilely into the concentration camps — albeit with some snooty carping over how the fascists ran the trains poorly and jibes at the incompetence of camp management.
Matthew Yglesias » Social Democracy as a Recession-Fighter 2009
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Its mediation mission to Tripoli this month docilely fulfilled Gadhafi's bidding, casting him as a "man of peace" while attempting to portray the rebels as warmongers by deliberately offering them a "peace plan" they could not accept.
Gambia Leads the Way Jason Pack 2011
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The Social Democrats went docilely into the concentration camps — albeit with some snooty carping over how the fascists ran the trains poorly and jibes at the incompetence of camp management.
Matthew Yglesias » Social Democracy as a Recession-Fighter 2009
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In my opinion, such numbers -- such acts of both valor and martyrdom -- are indicative of a nation, a military and a people that did not docilely submit to the tyranny of the Nazi jackboot.
Dorian de Wind: France: Impressions of a Passer-By Dorian de Wind 2010
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In my opinion, such numbers -- such acts of both valor and martyrdom -- are indicative of a nation, a military and a people that did not docilely submit to the tyranny of the Nazi jackboot.
Dorian de Wind: France: Impressions of a Passer-By Dorian de Wind 2010
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In my opinion, such numbers -- such acts of both valor and martyrdom -- are indicative of a nation, a military and a people that did not docilely submit to the tyranny of the Nazi jackboot.
Dorian de Wind: France: Impressions of a Passer-By Dorian de Wind 2010
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In my opinion, such numbers -- such acts of both valor and martyrdom -- are indicative of a nation, a military and a people that did not docilely submit to the tyranny of the Nazi jackboot.
Dorian de Wind: France: Impressions of a Passer-By Dorian de Wind 2010
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I happen to think Rosa Luxemburg was right to oppose the war and Bernstein was wrong to support it so docilely.
Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009
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