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Meanings of deferential in English

Showing deference.

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Usage of deferential in English
1
A good woman is deferential and knows how to make people talk.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2
Freeling was exceedingly deferential in the beginning and guarded in his speech.
Cast Adrift
3
Except a maharajah would probably not have received quite such deferential treatment.
Provenance
4
It also said the current board for was too deferential to Barrack.
Reuters
5
The deferential shop-girl listened and wrote the directions down on a card.
A Terrible Secret: A Novel
6
At the same time he caught the answer from afar-a deferential voice:
A Man and His Money
7
The deferential Herr Durnberg entered from the Wahlzimmer, and softly approached them.
The Sword Maker
8
In questions of theory or of abstruse information, he was foolishly deferential.
Angel Island
9
At last the younger woman said in her previous deferential, coaxing tone,-
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
10
He gives the deferential slight bow and says hello to Tamil Tiger.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
11
The police were courteous and deferential, admitting that Max was the culprit.
The Princess Elopes
12
How do you do, Mr. Castor, says the blue-coat, in deferential tone.
The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
13
The secret of their divine skill is not flattery, but deferential treatment.
The Friendships of Women
14
He seemed rather deferential toward the primary Zelandoni of the Twenty-ninth Cave.
The Shelters of Stone
15
Giacosa rose at her summons and advanced with his usual deferential alacrity.
Roderick Hudson
16
He looked at his elegant son with an air half-quizzical and half-deferential.
Clayhanger
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common