submissive

“They were not submissive,” Rossellini says of the nuns.

The character’s influence lies in her ability to observe and to be “totally alert” to everything happening around her during the conclave, but not in a submissive way.

Making the decision myself, and forcing the issue, was antithetical to his expectation that I continue to be a submissive wife.

I was submissive to my husband who’d been deemed the head of our household by biblical Scripture.

When a man like Musk walks away from his kids, the right wants to accuse the mother of running him off, usually by not being submissive enough.