Significados de as submissive en inglés

She was as submissive and obedient as if he had been the king.

Vivian, who was as fragile as Stephen, as submissive, said it out loud anyway.

I wonder if she means to be as submissive as she thought she would.

It evoked a postwar era of advertising that portrayed wives as submissive rather than independent.

Young women are usually referred to as sluts, whores, bitches etc, and represented as submissive.

It brought steel out of the "rascals," and made them as submissive as shoe-strings.

He was as submissive as could be desired.

All feel the power of the Sheikh, and are almost as submissive as if they were at Mourzuk.

I will give a hundred willingly, provided she is a maid and is as submissive as a lamb.

I swear eternal gratitude, and to be as submissive to you as a good daughter ought to be.

They yield, as submissive as curs.

To you I should have been, of course, as submissive after my beating as while it was going on.

He kept out of the way of temptation almost timidly, and was faithful to her, and as submissive as a spaniel.

Asian women, meanwhile, regularly go up for parts as masseuses and sex workers or characters described as submissive, fragile or quiet.

New France was as law-abiding as New England; her people were quite as submissive to their leaders in both Church and State.

He was as submissive as a child; and would not and could not do anything until he had gotten permission-thusmuch for discipline.