obeisant

I’m less convinced by your argument for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which to me felt too obeisant to Scorsese’s usual A-team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

But with Vladimir Putin he turns into a bashful schoolboy, fawning and obeisant.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2018

"Ease and health, obeisant children, wisdom, and a fair-voiced wife— Thus, great King! are counted up the five felicities of life."

From Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. by Sir Edwin Arnold

Swift king Bhagiratha drave upon his lofty glittering car, And swift with her obeisant wave bright Ganga followed him afar.'

From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman

She imports patterns, and they become the mode; her caterer invents dishes, and they are copied throughout the obeisant world.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various