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Strange. As old as I am, I still feel deferential to you. Perhaps maturity cannot be measured with an hourglass.

The UK government needs to be less deferential towards the US and more willing to say no to Washington, a group of MPs have said.

But deferential diplomacy can only get you so far.

as one Chinese female investment banker in Beijing puts it, "we do not come across as deferential" .

The techniques it teaches are useful, though they could apply as much to non-aggressive men as to deferential women.

His tone was perceived as insufficiently deferential; afterward, Miscavige demanded to know why Haggis had been invited.

The manner when accepting calling card must deferential, make the other side feels you are very interested in his calling card.

You don't have to be so deferential.

Biff has become an auto-detailer, and is now very deferential toward George.

The formal ones include honorific, deferential, and humbling terms, all of them generally universal and systematic.

The questions afterwards were deferential, technical.

The old idea of being deferential and accepting what you are told has gone.

For the royal weddings of the past, the celebratory crockery and linen in shops was starchy and deferential.

Polls show that people today are less deferential to authority in organizations and politics.

The aristos are paternalistic, the staff deferential and devoted, give or take the odd dashingly radical chauffeur.

To be servilely respectful or deferential; grovel.

Closer to home is the deferential treatment shown to human bodies in medical schools.

It also means showing deferential or submissive respect .

Huawei had formerly maintained a fairly deferential tone in its dealings with the government.

Surely there are clients who are deferential, in awe of his reputation?

Yet if the current public mood is patriotic, it is not deferential.

They differ in style (China is more deferential to Russia), but not in substance.

Since then everyone in the Palace had become so deferential towards him, which was flattering, but not exactly fun.

She is deferential to her superiors.

The use of deferential language is symbolic of Confucian ideal of the woman, which dominates conservative gender norms in Japan.

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