bowing

arching curving spiraling twining twisting veering warping winding

straight unbent unbowed

flattering

bootlicking cowering crawling cringing humble ingratiating kowtowing prostrate scraping sniveling

abject adulatory brown-nosing compliant mealy-mouthed obsequious parasitic servile slavish spineless submissive subservient sycophant sycophantic

aloof cool disinterested proud unfriendly

submission yielding

conceding resignation surrender

accedence buckling giving up knuckling under relenting succumbing

defending fight fighting

leaning

acclivity bank bend bending bevel bow cant declivity deviation direction downgrade grade gradient hill incline lean list pitch ramp slope tilt

capitulation resignation

acquiescence appeasement assent defeatism deference docility humbleness humility malleability meekness nonresistance obedience passivism passivity prostration servility subjection submissiveness surrender tractability unassertiveness yielding

backing down cringing giving-in pliabilty recreancy submitting

disagreement disobedience rebellion

fight resistance