Thesaurus / deferential
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EPD spokesperson Kevin Chambers, who did not make any agency officials available for an interview, said in a statement that the EPD “does not provide deferential treatment” to Georgia Power.
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Some have questioned whether he assumed that the crowd would be deferential to police or wondered if he was too focused on his impending retirement.
HOUSE SECURITY CHIEF SAID LAWMAKER WARINESS OF MILITARY AT CAPITOL DROVE HIS RESISTANCE TO EARLY REQUEST FOR NATIONAL GUARDROSALIND HELDERMAN, BETH REINHARD, KAROUN DEMIRJIAN, CAROL D. LEONNIGJANUARY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Humans, in a hierarchical organization, are naturally deferential.
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There was in his manner towards her a mixture of business formality and the deferential attitude of a gentleman.
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"Mademoiselle," I said, and my manner was as deferential as it might have been to her mistress.
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Festooned flowers, deferential service, barbaric, subtly lascivious music—this waste would have fed those workers for years!
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(placing an open copy of "Andromeda" in his hands with a charming air of deferential dictation).
"Shall be done, General," Marcus responded, with a deferential military salute.
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The deferential hostility between the two women acknowledged an intervening chasm.
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When she ceased, a gentleman approached the instrument and addressed her in terms of sympathy and deferential praise.
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WORDS RELATED TO DEFERENTIAL
- acquiescent
- amenable
- at one's beck and call
- attentive
- biddable
- complaisant
- compliant
- controllable
- deferential
- devoted
- docile
- docious
- duteous
- dutiful
- faithful
- governable
- honoring
- in one's clutches
- in one's pocket
- in one's power
- law-abiding
- loyal
- obeisant
- obliging
- observant
- on a string
- pliant
- regardful
- resigned
- respectful
- reverential
- sheeplike
- subservient
- tame
- tractable
- under control
- venerating
- well-trained
- willing
- wrapped around finger
- yielding
- abject
- beggarly
- complacent
- compliable
- compliant
- cringing
- crouching
- deferential
- enslaved
- fawning
- flattering
- ingratiating
- menial
- obeisant
- oily
- parasitic
- parasitical
- prostrate
- respectful
- servile
- slavish
- sneaking
- sniveling
- spineless
- stipendiary
- subject
- submissive
- subordinate
- subservient
- sycophantic
- toadying
- unctuous
- affable
- amenable
- amiable
- attentive
- bland
- civil
- complaisant
- concerned
- conciliatory
- condescending
- considerate
- cordial
- courteous
- courtly
- cultured
- deferential
- diplomatic
- elegant
- friendly
- genteel
- gentle
- good-natured
- gracious
- mild
- neighborly
- nice
- obliging
- obsequious
- pleasant
- polished
- politic
- punctilious
- refined
- respectful
- smooth
- sociable
- solicitous
- sympathetic
- thoughtful
- urbane
- well-behaved
- well-bred
- well-mannered
- accommodated
- acquiescent
- adapted
- adjusted
- agreeable
- amenable
- biddable
- calm
- compliant
- cordial
- deferential
- docile
- genial
- gentle
- long-suffering
- manageable
- nonresisting
- obedient
- patient
- peaceable
- philosophical
- pliant
- quiescent
- quiet
- ready
- reconciled
- satisfied
- stoical
- subdued
- submissive
- subservient
- tame
- tolerant
- tractable
- unassertive
- unprotesting
- unresisting
- well-disposed
- willing
- yielding
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