deferential

How To Use deferential In A Sentence

• Instead, he underplays and it's a joy to watch him assume just the right mask of deferential blandness to manage his Colonel.
• Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts.
• The child grows up with intimate forms of speech, but requires the deferential forms in later contact with the world.
• I asked, my tone polite and deferential - the latter being something which did not come naturally to me.
• By contrast, those in favour of reform were accorded a respect that bordered on the deferential.
• She is combative, not deferential, but not as effective as I'd like to see.
• He thoroughly deserved his long obituary, the tone of which is almost adulatory in parts, even allowing for the deferential standards of the time.
• Why doesn't a polite and deferential invitation to talk do the trick any more?
• Polite, deferential service in an old-school Continental-restaurant mode increases the sense of being suspended in a bubble of privilege for a few comfortable hours.
• he listened deferentially