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sub·mis·sive
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: submitting to others
submissive employees
it's not in her nature to be submissive
The video, which is more than two hours long, suggests the global response to Covid-19 is a plot hatched by big drug companies and governments to create a surveillance state and a submissive population.
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Helene Fouquet, Bloomberg.com , "Conspiracy Video Goes Viral in Threat to France’s Vaccine Push," 18 Nov. 2020
Loy’s tirade does the trick, cowing everyone into submissive silence.
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EW.com , "Fargo recap: Outlaws and criminals," 19 Oct. 2020
Those who score high on the RWA scale are submissive to authority but can be aggressive on behalf of that authority.
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Linda Killian, Washington Post , "Measuring the authoritarian mind-set of Trump’s followers," 2 Oct. 2020
There have been charges that women in People of Praise are encouraged to be submissive .
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Peggy Noonan, WSJ , "The Truth About People of Praise," 24 Sep. 2020
Critics argue that these figures—likely enslaved people—are presented as submissive to royal authority.
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Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , "Why Is the Dutch Royal Family’s Golden Carriage So Controversial?," 15 Sep. 2020
Then perhaps the Belarusian people will succeed in shedding a submissive past that is killing them, a past that, seen from Vilnius, a courageous city on the front line against Putin, is a poison just waiting to spread.
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Bernard-henri Lévy, WSJ , "Belarus’s Unlikely Opposition Leader," 4 Sep. 2020
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sub·mis·sive
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sub·mis·sive
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: characterized by tendencies to yield to the will or authority of others
bullying usually involves a stronger, more dominant personality coercing a weaker, more submissive personality — S. W. Twemlow et al.
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pursue
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