Sample Sentences for
submissive
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    It's one of your favorite fantasies, isn't it? the submissive Oriental woman and the cruel white man.  (source)
    submissive = inclined to submit (give in) to the wishes of others
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    The kid was quick to comply and Archie was pleased at his submissiveness.  (source)
    submissiveness = tendency to submit to the wishes of others
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    Grady, Grade-E loser, ... and crystal meth submissive,  (source)
    submissive = inclined to submit (give in)
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    I put my hands on the table, folding them over each other in what I hoped was a submissive pose, and waited.  (source)
    submissive = appearing to submit (give in) to the wishes of others
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    "Yes, Your Majesty," she said as submissively as possible, staring at the man's boots.†  (source)
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    There is nothing more they can take from us, but today, we have taken their superiority, and their belief in our submissiveness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every legend mankind has recorded about its beginning.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsubmissive means not and reverses the meaning of submissive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Was I getting so used to being submissive?†  (source)
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    Her head might have been bowed submissively, but her face was full of a white-hot rage.†  (source)
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    This bitter submissiveness made the man ugly and brutal.†  (source)
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    Woody always answered softly, respectfully, with a boyish and submissive smile.†  (source)
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    He looked nervous, standing in his white socks while the inspectors surrounded him, holding his hands submissively along his trouser seams.†  (source)
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    Worse, he had renounced sex when he consecrated himself to the Universes and this had a shocking effect on Star; sweet submissiveness wasn't her style.†  (source)
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