submissively
- r in a servile manner
- Only their jaws are moving, submissively, evenly, without joy or animation.
- Not only must women lie submissively in stirrups; they frequently must also endure the abasing attitudes of their doctors -- 80% of whom are men.
- Similarly, the symbolic figurehead of the reformist movement, former President Mohammad Khatami, called on Iranians to "Participate, though submissively, but with joy!".