submissive

But they could come up with a competitive candidate who would be neither the dominant Berlusconi nor the submissive Alfano.

How His people need thus to be in heaviness through manifold temptations, to keep them meek and submissive!

Perhaps a submissive acquiescence on her part at this important moment might help to gain her cause.

The horses were submissive enough while the hunchback removed and changed their saddles.

Mercy still waited to be spoken to; pale and quiet, silent and submissive.

He was a man of no great personal valor, but patient, persevering, and submissive to minds superior to his own.