submissively

All of them understood their task and submissively tried to describe the president’s thoughts in their own words.

And when urine was allowed through holes in the barrier, the fish behaved differently: the smaller fish acted more submissively toward the bigger ones.

“We made the money up this morning, sir,” said one of the men, submissively, while the other perused Mr. Jaggers’s face.

Those who once warned against tyranny now submissively serve a president with authoritarian pretensions.

Thoas answered submissively, “Whatever is your pleasure, Goddess, shall be done.”