Both Uses of
subordinate
in
Nine Stories
- Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph.†
Story 8 *
- At a respectably subordinate distance behind Joseph came the women of Galilee, mixed in with a motley, perhaps gate-crashing crowd of mourners, spectators, children, and no less than three frisky, impious mongrels.†
Story 8
Definition:
less important or subservient; or to rank as such