Thesaurus / obedient
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
So even though I was not obedient in one way, I never went off the deep end and like really crossed the line to do stuff that was illegal or drugs, things like that.
KENYA MOORE SPILLS THE TEA ON PHAEDRAJOSHUA EFERIGHEFEBRUARY 18, 2021OZY
After that case was announced, people became even more obedient to our directives.
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Had you not been loved, you never would have been chastised—you would never have become an obedient and willing child.
Now she imagined herself no longer possessing but entirely possessed; no longer commanding, but utterly obedient.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
He had evidently assumed the direction of matters and his big assistant was amusingly obedient.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMOND
But we have dwelt in tents, and have been obedient according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Otherwise he was obedient, and generally enjoyed romping with his sisters.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKY
When she, obedient to Love's rendezvous,Had reached the middle of a plain, than whichNo other more bewitching could be found.
THE POEMS OF GIACOMO LEOPARDIGIACOMO LEOPARDI
We all use the formula of "your most obedient, humble servant," even when we intend anything but humility or obedience.
Good wives are obedient and attentive, even in the absence of their husbands.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)
WORDS RELATED TO OBEDIENT
- accountable
- apt
- at one's feet
- bound by
- captive
- collateral
- conditional
- contingent
- controlled
- dependent
- directed
- disposed
- enslaved
- exposed
- governed
- in danger of
- inferior
- liable
- likely
- obedient
- open
- prone
- provisional
- ruled
- satellite
- secondary
- sensitive
- servile
- slavish
- sub
- subaltern
- subjugated
- submissive
- subordinate
- subservient
- substract
- susceptible
- tentative
- tributary
- under
- vulnerable
- abject
- accommodating
- acquiescent
- amenable
- bowing down
- comformable
- complying
- deferential
- docile
- domesticated
- dutiful
- giving-in
- humble
- ingratiating
- lowly
- malleable
- meek
- menial
- nonresistant
- nonresisting
- obedient
- obeisant
- obeying
- obsequious
- passive
- patient
- pliable
- pliant
- resigned
- servile
- slavish
- subdued
- tame
- tractable
- uncomplaining
- unresisting
- yes
- yielding
- acclimatized
- amenable
- biddable
- bridled
- broken
- busted
- civilized
- cultivated
- disciplined
- docile
- domestic
- fearless
- gentle
- gentle as a lamb
- habituated
- harmless
- harnessed
- housebroken
- kindly
- manageable
- meek
- mild
- muzzled
- obedient
- overcome
- pliable
- pliant
- subdued
- submissive
- tractable
- trained
- unafraid
- unresisting
- yoked
- acclimatized
- amenable
- biddable
- bridled
- broken
- busted
- civilized
- cultivated
- disciplined
- docile
- domestic
- fearless
- gentle
- gentle as a lamb
- habituated
- harmless
- harnessed
- housebroken
- kindly
- manageable
- meek
- mild
- muzzled
- obedient
- overcome
- pliable
- pliant
- subdued
- submissive
- tractable
- trained
- unafraid
- unresisting
- yoked
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