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obeisant adjective affable, amiable, civil, compliant, conciliatory, courteous, decorous, duteous, dutiful, eager to please, good-natured, gracious, helpful, honorable, humble, meek, nonresisting, obedient, obliging, pliant, respectful, reverent, reverential, self-abasing, showing homage, submissive, subservient, surrendering, willing, yielding See also: obedient, passive, pliant, sequacious, servile, subservient How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| On first listen, it's obvious that Western Addiction has spent obeisant time at the Black Flag altar and has learned from the clenched-fist wisdom of Minor Threat, while not ignoring the direct, melodic rage of Strike Anywhere. Parsing their complex performances, she convincingly reads them as both obeisant and self-empowering. Patrick orders his obeisant secretary, Chloe Sevigny), but to add that it speaks with forked tongue to Clinton-generated, bull-market amorality would belabor the obvious. |
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