submissive
Example Sentences
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Yoon has accused the Moon administration of being “submissive” to Pyongyang and Beijing at the expense of Seoul’s 70-year alliance with Washington.
From Seattle Times
The song affirms my own desire for a high-quality brand of Vitamin D. Plus, she reminds me: Women don't have to play the oft-expected submissive role in bed.
From Salon
In both public and private, he was strikingly submissive and deferential to Putin.
From Salon
“French society is so focused on the veil, but the veil doesn’t hurt anyone. Most people think that a veiled woman is a submissive woman, that she’s oppressed.”
From Washington Post
Fernandez-Palacios was "just a pale reflection of an interfering, intrusive, badly educated, spoiled, capricious, devitalized and servile policy" that was submissive to the United States, the letter stated.
From Reuters
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