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submissively

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sub·mis·sive  (sb-msv)
adj.
Inclined or willing to submit.
sub·missive·ly adv.
sub·missive·ness n.
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Adv.1.submissively - in a servile manner; "he always acts so deferentially around his supervisor"
deferentially
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Like an ox with head bent, submissively he awaited the blow which he felt was lifted over him.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Turning his back to his captor, he walked submissively away in the direction indicated, looking to neither the right nor the left; hardly daring to breathe, his head and back actually aching with a prophecy of buckshot.
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Humbly and submissively,' returned the tragedian, scowling upwards.
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