Exactly the sort of dirty, submissive gesture she often fantasized about.

It's our equivalent of the submissive gesture that dogs make by lowering their head below their shoulders.

It was sufficient to cause a contrite cub to come after her making submissive gestures, as members of a pride did to those more dominant.

He put down his cup and held up his hands in a submissive gesture.

Men often find it hard to ask for help because it is a submissive gesture.

She knew it was a submissive gesture, but she was too alarmed to care.

He could have used the submissive gesture to take me in his arms, but he did it the way it had been shown to me.

A grimace with the mouth open and the teeth exposed is a submissive gesture given in response to a stare.

He rose and walked toward the dais, repeating the submissive gesture two more times before he stood below the throne of power.