deferential

How To Use deferential In A Sentence

• Though Trench was deferential to authority he was also a man of valour.
• Though Trench was deferential to authority he was also a man of valour.
• He was accompanied by a friend, a man of imposing physique, whose deferential manner and constant attention showed that his position was one of dependence.
• They are amazingly deferential to men and try to placate them.
• He felt that he was always deferential and respectful.
• There are also slavishly deferential entries on various historians and political scientists.
• Flandry didn't know what the title signified -- and Merseian grades were subtle, variable things -- but it was plainly a high one, since the aristocratic-deferential form of address was used. A Circus of Hells
• He speaks in a booming voice and is insultingly deferential or disparaging towards women.
• Nicholas is rather out of his element now; he cannot see the kitchen as he used to in the old House; there, one window of his glass – case opened into the room, and then, for the edification and behoof of more juvenile questioners, he would stand for an hour together, answering deferential questions about Sheridan, and Percival, and Castlereagh, and Sketches by Boz
• Amy nodded deferentially and kicked off her shoes, settling into the soft, downy bed, leaving the door flung wide open.