The scullion presented his tablet to the captain with a very deferential bow.

He has been grave and very deferential, gathered wood for you and carried water.

Outwardly the peons were very deferential to white men.

I find him very deferential-hehas the courteous European manner, which, when high-bred ,isso polite.

Everybody was always very deferential to him.

He was very deferential, but he was, after all, only a Garfinkel and she needed a Ferriday.

But he and Joe Hill, his son who co-wrote this novella, are very deferential to the filmmakers.

He had been very deferential to Miss Silence, and had wound himself into the confidence of Miss Badlam.

Both sets were exquisitely polite, courteous in their deportment, and very deferential to those with whom they conversed.

He was rosy-faced and genial, clean shaven, above the middle-height, and his manner was very deferential and attractive.

You must be very deferential.

Yet in spite of his apparent seniority, the governor was very deferential to Tsering and addressed him with great politeness.

Now if you all had voted up a Kafka or a Brazil reference as the winner, I'd be very deferential.

Ever since Norr brought a message through from Mayor Pontho's disembodied aunt, the politician had been very deferential toward the sensitive.

Therefore the passport and the passage were all right, and the captain was very deferential, and I got to Florence safely.

I have found Nigerians to be incredibly respectful and mannerly, very deferential and humble, and so appreciative of the basics of life.