deference

Example Sentences

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Baboons have a Japanese complexity of deferences and dominances.

From Time Magazine Archive

They could talk together plainly, baldly, a talk ungarnished and unretarded by deferences on the one side and on the other a kindness apt to become excessive in its anxiety not to appear to condescend.

From The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth

The intonation was cockney; it reminded him of the rich vocal deferences of Bounds.

From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

There are sentimental and traditional deferences and reverences, I know, between father and son; but that's just exactly what prevents the development of an easy friendship.

From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

He admired her, and admired her extremely, as she perceived at once; but he offered none of the appropriate deferences that she had received on occasion from obscure young men of less than modest fortune.

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake