What is "submissively"

Usage examples of "submissively".

Marchioness of Steyne, the haughtiest woman in England, would bend down to her husband so submissively if there were not some cause?

They appeared to have patiently expected, and submissively obeyed, the decree of the senate which regulated the succession to the throne.

The movements of a judoka seem unhurried, his victim will appear to cooperate submissively in the performance of the throw.

I did not understand what was said, but I guessed it referred to the girl because, when her father called her, she advanced submissively, and stood modestly before us.

The young male prostitute, hunched submissively, feels the condom-peel and then the blood and starts struggling like a condemned man, trying to get the condomless bleeding flabby old specimen out and off of him.

He lowered his fore-body submissively and Tewsee acknowledged his obeisance with a gracious gesture.

Bighorn sheep are suitable to us and similar to mouflons in most respects except a crucial one: they lack the mouflon's stereotypical behavior whereby some individuals behave submissively toward other individuals whose dominance they acknowledge.

Bighorn sheep are suitable to us and similar to mouflons in most respects except a crucial one: they lack the mouflon’s stereotypical behavior whereby some individuals behave submissively toward other individuals whose dominance they acknowledge.

In a blinding moment of relevation he realized the love she bore him, and the motives which had brought her submissively into his arms.

But the condemned man looked so submissively doglike that it seemed as if he might have been allowed to run free on the slopes and would only need to be whistled for when the execution was due to begin.

As he was about to pull the trigger, the man threw away with force a short heavy spear, and squatted submissively on his hams, his back to the wall and his clasped hands between his legs.