obedient
Example Sentences
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Descriptors such as "intelligent," "obedient," "good with children," "dedicated," "calm," and "cheerful" appeared with similar frequency in both groups.
From Science Daily
While the series explores questions of free will and how it gets co-opted, the algorithm is not the only entity assigning humans quests, and the humans we follow are not reflexively obedient.
From Washington Post
In the United States, if you're an obedient intellectual commentator and scholar, you take it for granted that we must have a rules-based order.
From Salon
She has a fleet of employees who are quiet, obedient and fearful.
From Salon
Richardson inhabits his characters, both male and female, fully; they are, by turns, obedient, defiant, supportive, calculating, cruel and, quite often, laugh-out-loud funny.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
