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Recent Examples of respectfulness
People considered other traits – such as loyalty, reliability, respectfulness and being there in times of need – to be much more important.
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Athena Aktipis, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for respectfulness
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Proxy advisors will continue to play a role, but their influence will no longer be supported by blind deference.—
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His pretensions—riding around in a grand coach and continuing the weekly levees—as well as his administration’s notorious effort to enforce deference in the 1798 Sedition Act, fell flat.—
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The passage from the ordinary way of the world to the contemplative way of tea symbolizes humility.—
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Candidates from both parties use breathless prose, artificial deadlines and sometimes a dose of humility to add a sense of urgency to their appeals.—
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But for Coles, his indoctrination to law enforcement has been a different level of submissiveness.—
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In Killers of the Flower Moon, his Ernest Burkhart starts off as a mopey, weak-minded World War One veteran, eager to do anything for his godfather uncle (Robert De Niro), but there’s still a certain likability to his dim-bulb submissiveness.—
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May the Spirit of God, who is truth and strength, and instils meekness and courage, sustain you.—
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Most Canadians want uncomplicated lives, a desire for calm that can be misinterpreted by louder people as meekness.—
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The secret to Buford’s longevity Buford expressed modesty about his service in World War II.—
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With the film’s relative modesty, Jarmusch is tuning up—while also retuning the world of cinema, its critics and its viewers, to his own distinctive note and preparing them for his higher harmonics to come.—
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“Respectfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respectfulness. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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