Defer (to)

Usage examples of kowtow.

That would certainly have made Raiko kowtow for a year or more and guaranteed he would have the service he wanted when he wanted--we might have had to run off too.

Whenever a gardener saw them, the man would kowtow until they were out of sight.

Lord Macartney refused to perform their ritual of obeisance before the Emperor, the kowtow, and they took offense.

Here they exchanged the most tremendous civilities, until Miss Bella swept into the room, when there was more kowtow on all sides, and a smiling show of teeth that was like an illumination.

I might also remind you, silly snob that you are, that she is not only accepted by those ridiculous nitwits in so-called high society, whom you have the desire to kowtow to constantly, but is assiduously courted by them.

Her mother refused to kowtow to the vegetarianism Ruth had taken up after my death.

We knelt and performed the three obeisances and nine kowtows, and he signaled for us to rise.

They ushered him into the audience chamber, and after the three obeisances and nine kowtows he was allowed to rise and approach the throne.

We performed the three obeisances and the nine kowtows, and then we got to our feet.

Five Miniature Mystic Dragons, then he kowtowed to the Leader and Madame Hong.

When Trinket thought he had mastered them, he dropped to his knees and kowtowed, knocking his head altogether eight times on the floor.

As soon as they were inside, Zhang took out the Secret Edict and Trinket kowtowed and received it in both hands.

I was in the back row at court waiting to give my first imperial performance, and this wicked old man kowtowed to the emperor, got to his feet, whipped a knife from his sleeve, and cut the throat of the Minister of Trade.

He kowtowed to the little red cloth figures and then turned to join the others.

Kwan-yin kowtowed before her royal father, kneeling and touching her forehead on the floor in sign of deepest reverence.