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Meanings of very deferential in English

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Usage of very deferential in English
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The scullion presented his tablet to the captain with a very deferential bow.
On The Blockade
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He has been grave and very deferential, gathered wood for you and carried water.
Diane of the Green Van
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Outwardly the peons were very deferential to white men.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras / Being the Rand...
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I find him very deferential-hehas the courteous European manner, which, when high-bred ,isso polite.
Miriam Monfort / A Novel
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Everybody was always very deferential to him.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge ...
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He was very deferential, but he was, after all, only a Garfinkel and she needed a Ferriday.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
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But he and Joe Hill, his son who co-wrote this novella, are very deferential to the filmmakers.
The Verge
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He had been very deferential to Miss Silence, and had wound himself into the confidence of Miss Badlam.
The Guardian Angel
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Both sets were exquisitely polite, courteous in their deportment, and very deferential to those with whom they conversed.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 / of Sixty Years in the National ...
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He was rosy-faced and genial, clean shaven, above the middle-height, and his manner was very deferential and attractive.
The Dawn of All
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You must be very deferential.
If Only etc.
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Yet in spite of his apparent seniority, the governor was very deferential to Tsering and addressed him with great politeness.
The mandala of sherlock holmes: the missing years
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Now if you all had voted up a Kafka or a Brazil reference as the winner, I'd be very deferential.
Wired
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Ever since Norr brought a message through from Mayor Pontho's disembodied aunt, the politician had been very deferential toward the sensitive.
Logos Run
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Therefore the passport and the passage were all right, and the captain was very deferential, and I got to Florence safely.
Memoirs
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I have found Nigerians to be incredibly respectful and mannerly, very deferential and humble, and so appreciative of the basics of life.
Ebony
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