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This was undeferential enough, but two years previously Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear concluded with an even more undignified satire on the president’s wife.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2016

D'Amato's fund-raising muscle and party control in delegate-rich New York are especially helpful to Bob Dole, a longtime ally who values D'Amato's direct, undeferential style.

From Time Magazine Archive

David learned his undeferential ways first as editor of Isis, the student magazine at Oxford, then as an interviewer for the BBC in the provinces.

From Time Magazine Archive

M. Roussillon winced, inwardly at least, under Hamilton's very undeferential air and style of address.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

Perhaps he had an animus against these bumptious, undeferential, overcritical Americans, and thought it was time to give one of them a lesson.

From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Williams, Albert Rhys