Sample Sentences for
deference
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    She gets deferential treatment because she is well known for giving $100 tips.
    deferential = especially respectful
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    He had the respect of everyone, and he was treated with deference in his evening practices.  (source)
    deference = polite respect
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    Other prisoners warned Louie that he had to show deference or the Bird would never stop.  (source)
    deference = submission
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    Everyone treated me with the deference accorded only to the school's top athletes.  (source)
    deference = polite respect
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    Then came voices--the conductor's, deferential, apologetic; and a woman's, insistent and voluble.  (source)
    deferential = polite and respectful
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    I was horrified, too, but there was something pleasant about a guy so despicable that he wouldn't treat us deferentially.  (source)
    deferentially = in a politely respectful manner
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    They all laugh except MAMA, out of deference to TRAVIS' feelings.  (source)
    deference = polite respect
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    "Charming, charming," murmured the Director and, giving her two or three little pats, received in exchange a rather deferential smile for himself.  (source)
    deferential = politely respectful
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    They watched him cross the lobby, touch Mrs. Brant's elbow deferentially,  (source)
    deferentially = with polite respect
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    Anatole held his tongue, in deference to my family.  (source)
    deference = polite respect
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    Only Reba, with her light pimply skin and deferential manner, looked as though her simplicity might also be vacuousness.  (source)
    deferential = politely respectful
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    He gets out of her way deferentially and apologizes.  (source)
    deferentially = with polite respect
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    Take action in scorn of deference.  (source)
    deference = submission to another
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