A properly deferential officer would never have put a boot on Erdyl's shins.

"Exalted Fleetlord-" Straha used the proper deferential title, but sounded anything but properly deferential.

A person who knows the workings of the Birmingham Country Club said the club had kept out Mr. Scrushy because he was not properly deferential.

No, she thought, answering her own question, it's because I have never been properly deferential, Data began to appear on Nicole's screen.

This is hardly a conductor's vehicle, but Mr. Nagano sounded properly deferential to the soloist, Bella Davidovich.

I had come prepared to be properly deferential toward the august company, but not to be intimidated by them.

But Scipio had sounded properly deferential, so the fellow let him go on.

All seemed serene and ordinary - the attendant properly deferential toward the Bashar.

Roshnani had been properly deferential, as a daughter-in-law should have, but had not yielded, as most daughters-in-law would have.

Soviet scientists were properly deferential to the man who was second in the USSR only to the General Secretary of the Communist Party.