Reviewers are lazy and too deferent in the face of bad work.

All were exceedingly polite, even mildly deferent in a college environment different from what they had known.

Indeed enquiries show that deferent individuals require not only different but conflicting things from a lecture.

The keys are pressed to shorten those strings which results in sound of a deferent pitch.

They preferred their women more delicately made, more deferent.

Gentle and deferent attendants led her to the plush chair where the sleep helmet waited.

Today's calcified concert rituals - the aloof artist, the deferent public - are one legacy of this development.

"Don't be deferent," she said testily-a tone of voice that Shedemei had taught her inadvertently.

In touching and deferent courtesy, that one stepped aside, while a lieutenant volunteered the pole off his mace.

Viruses is a deferent matter.

To read through British newspapers from the week before the 1981 Royal Wedding is to enter a more deferent era.

Micky counseled herself to adopt the deferent demeanor she'd learned-not easily-to use with authorities.

As such an attitude fades, so people will be less prepared to have a deferent attitude and US power will fade.

To Anacho's questions they gave deferent responses; Anacho ambled back to Reith.

Arian padded through the gloom, encountering only a lone security guard who retreated with a deferent tip of his cap the moment he recognized her.

The Wizard now arose and made a low bow to Ozma and another less deferent bow to the assembled company.

We're primates, admittedly, and no doubt we have primate brain chemistry-but we become Aristoi be/ore all the people around us became so deferent.

But Dom Crist o, like all Filhos, made it a point to be completely deferent to the Church hierarchy.

Her manner was brisk and confident, and though her approach was deferent and proper, there was an assured spark in her eyes.

The elevator doors open into a circular room, and the party makes its way past deferent guards up stairs to the glittering Crystal Dome, where the cabinet meets.

But no, she realized as the sweet and deferent men and women soothingly wheeled the table to a place where monitoring instruments waited for her, no, that could never happen.

Police berets are deferent from the army beret in color and in shape, while it is pushed to the left while army berets are pushed to the right.

It may also be used in an external manner in stallions for evaluation of testicular condition and diameter as well as internally for reproductive evaluation (deferent duct etc.).