Thesaurus / submissive
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I’m not where they’re from and they can just beat the living crap out of people and think they’ll be submissive.
SCHUMER VOWS VOTE ON BUILD BACK BETTER LEGISLATION DESPITE MANCHIN’S OPPOSITIONJOHN WAGNERDECEMBER 20, 2021WASHINGTON POSTBeing a stranger to Germany, Fazazi was, at the time, utterly dependent on her husband, and submissive to his views on where to go, and how to dress and behave.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE TOWERS: FIVE LIVES AND A WORLD TRANSFORMEDJOBY WARRICK, SOUAD MEKHENNETSEPTEMBER 2, 2021WASHINGTON POST“Ensure that you aren’t the first one to stray away from making eye contact—that’s a submissive gesture,” says Donaldson.
EXUDE POWER AND CONFIDENCE WITH BETTER BODY LANGUAGEJOHN KENNEDYAUGUST 13, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEFashion—Do not be too submissive to the dictates of fashion; at the same time avoid oddity or eccentricity in your dress.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEYInstead of creating men, a perfect God ought to have created only docile and submissive angels.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERTheir profession requires vile and submissive slaves, who never have the audacity to reason.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERA week passed thus: the count came twice to see me, and always preserved the same cold and submissive manner.
CHICOT THE JESTERALEXANDRE DUMAS, PEREFolk made they submissive readily enough, and many country folk were thereon baptized.
THE SAGAS OF OLAF TRYGGVASON AND OF HARALD THE TYRANT (HARALD HAARDRAADE)SNORRI STURLUSONHe had been humble, submissive to Thurstane, and almost entirely indifferent about Clara.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTHe was a pleasant enough man as a rule, except when not digesting well, and generally submissive to Madame Bill.
THE BELTED SEASARTHUR COLTONWORDS RELATED TO SUBMISSIVE
- 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
- accessory
- adjuvant
- ancillary
- auxiliary
- baser
- below par
- collateral
- contributory
- dependent
- inferior
- insignificant
- junior
- low
- lower
- minor
- paltry
- satellite
- second-fiddle
- second-string
- secondary
- smaller
- sub
- subaltern
- subalternate
- subject
- submissive
- subnormal
- subservient
- subsidiary
- substract
- tributary
- under
- underaverage
- unequal
- a slave to
- abject
- acquiescent
- at one's beck and call
- at one's mercy
- bootlicking
- cowering
- cringing
- dancing
- deferential
- docile
- fawning
- ignoble
- in one's clutches
- in one's pocket
- in one's power
- inferior
- mean
- menial
- obeisant
- obsequious
- resigned
- servile
- slavish
- subject
- submissive
- sycophantic
- under one's thumb
- 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
- Milquetoast
- afraid
- ambivalent
- apprehensive
- badgered
- bashful
- browbeaten
- bullied
- capricious
- cowardly
- cowed
- cowering
- coy
- daunted
- demure
- diffident
- fainthearted
- fearful
- feeble
- frightened
- gentle
- having cold feet
- humble
- intimidated
- irresolute
- modest
- mousy
- nervous
- pusillanimous
- retiring
- shaky
- shrinking
- soft
- spineless
- spiritless
- submissive
- timorous
- trembling
- unassertive
- unassured
- unnerved
- vacillating
- wavering
- weak
- yellow
- average
- base
- baseborn
- cast down
- common
- commonplace
- declassed
- docile
- dutiful
- everyday
- gentle
- humble
- ignoble
- low
- lowborn
- mean
- meek
- menial
- mild
- modest
- mundane
- obscure
- obsequious
- ordinary
- plebeian
- poor
- proletarian
- prosaic
- retiring
- reverential
- servile
- simple
- submissive
- subordinate
- unassuming
- unpretentious
- vulgar
- withdrawing
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