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• r  in a servile manner
  he always acts so deferentially around his supervisor
• r  in a respectfully deferential manner
  he listened deferentially

• When he meets people, he pulls his feet together and deferentially drops his head.
• It is no wonder that Hitler today is a far different creature from the man who deferentially greeted President von Hindenburg in January 1933 when the old Field Marshal .
• Later Wednesday, Thompson hits The Tonight Show, where he'll be treated far more deferentially by Jay Leno than he would have been by his debating fellow Republicans who'd like .

• submissively

News & Articles

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• At Ceremony for Civil Rights Milestone, an Image That Spoke Volumes
  Commemorating a famous civil rights speech, a black president was at center stage, as two white former presidents looked on deferentially.
  Aug. 28, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Mary McGrory in Yahoo! News
  What is happening,wrote Mary McGrory, The Washington Star columnist, "is that violet-eyed damsels from Smith are pinning McCarthy buttons on tattooed mill workers, and Ph.Ds from Cornell, shaven and shorn for world peace, are deferentially...
• Norah Vincent in CNN
  As Vincent writes in her amusing, bombastic, and highly unpersuasive book, "Self-Made Man": "Seeing those guys looking away deferentially when they thought I was male, I could validate in retrospect the true hostility of their former stares."