obeisance

Example Sentences

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His “gruff” father had little time for such infantilizing obeisance and would resist as best he could.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

But the demands for obeisance from everyone around him, foreign and domestic, aren't new.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2025

Absent that, her critics have increasingly ascribed her behavior to a slurry of narcissism, opportunism and obeisance to corporate interests.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

At times, in his 2018 memoir, The Briefing, his obeisance verges on Stockholm syndrome.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2020

With a grin and a mock obeisance, Heqet began to arrange logs in the firing box, and Ranofer used his moment of leisure to watch the work going on around him.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw