Too acquiescent to challenge authority. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She frowned, exactly as the Lady whom Stile knew would have, then flung her golden hair back in a kind of acquiescent defiance. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
Our information overload society is at risk for the kind of acquiescent attitude. From Wordnik.com. [PORT] Reference
It made people passive and obedient and acquiescent. From Wordnik.com. [Persuader]
The bouncer growled again but the rest of him was acquiescent. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
I could have been as acquiescent as they wanted, she thought irritably. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
Yet by the end of the booty hunt, some girl is bound to be acquiescent. From Wordnik.com. [E (novel extract)] Reference
But a whole nation cannot be made to be totally acquiescent by orders above. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Israeli Forces Attack Palestinian Targets in Response to Recent Terrorist Attacks - March 28, 2001] Reference
Initially, she'd offered faint protest, then stood by, passively acquiescent. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
He was starting to realize she did not possess an acquiescent bone in her body. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
HARRIS: Now so -- did that surprise you at all, to see how acquiescent they'd be?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 13, 2001] Reference
They are now furious and engaged, where they were once acquiescent and uninvolved. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca Solnit: The Icelandic Volcano Erupts] Reference
An acquiescent disinterest promoted by the amoral psychology of diversion inherent in. From Wordnik.com. [How Does Obama Look His Two Girls in the Eye While Killing Children in Many Lands?] Reference
Therefore it is desperate to do everything possible to keep the media quiet and acquiescent. From Wordnik.com. [Bush Regime Attacks Media, Diverts Attention from Its Spying Program on Financial Records] Reference
If they had kept him on the inside, then he would have been, if you like, an acquiescent worm. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2003] Reference
The man is eager, resolute, humorous; the woman, if not acquiescent, is at least apprehending. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
I think the Clintons are hoping to bully the media into a more acquiescent role in their coverage. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary To NBC: Fire David Shuster] Reference
But being acquiescent, going along with something without any real commitment, was simply not Caro. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
German shoals, the king was equally disposed to be an acquiescent onlooker and to spare his own powder. From Wordnik.com. [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference
Indeed, where is the agriculturist who is not strictly attentive as well as acquiescent to this tendency?. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference
If some seem acquiescent, even obsequious, it's because it's an expedient course of action for the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Here It Is: Advance Copy Of New Iraq Intel Report Expressing Dire Concerns About Maliki] Reference
There is no evidence to show that she otherwise expressed herself than as in the acquiescent suggestion to. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
Oswald sees no rational prospect of cleared future destiny, but feels strangely acquiescent in Fate's opening seals. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Mystified, but acquiescent, Mary considered for a moment, looking from paper to brush, while Stefan watched eagerly. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Walpole makes Palmerston responsible for the original plan and Russell acquiescent and readily agreeing to postpone. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
For this purpose, we do not need more "fellow travellers" - acquiescent and apathetic people who just "do their jobs". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
You know, we thought that we would be with several elections there, moving into a more acquiescent phase of this conflict. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2006] Reference
Man, comfortable and acquiescent, wished to amuse himself by a reflex of the life which he no longer aspired to transcend. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
Q Just a few weeks ago, the President sat on his own members in the Senate not to vote for this, acquiescent to Ross's request. From Wordnik.com. [Secretary Rubin Press Briefing On Tax Proposal] Reference
What's wrong with our elected representatives -- and with acquiescent citizens who aren't holding Wall Street's feet to the fire?. From Wordnik.com. [Les Leopold: Welfare Reform for Wall Street] Reference
It arises when the ruling class can no longer look forward to unlimited profits and to acquiescent people willing to be exploited. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the National Executive Committee] Reference
Madame Bertaux, and it occurred to her that Marion Fenwick was probably not quite so acquiescent and satisfied as her friends supposed. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
This new fad of mobility is part of the latest US military strategy for global domination, and an acquiescent Europe is the centrepiece. From Wordnik.com. [Euro peace: The sounds of silence] Reference
The sleepy eye of the engineer had a red spark in it that might have jumped out of his own engine-furnace as he turned upon the acquiescent. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
Yet we see no such uprising, we see an opposition party silent and acquiescent, yet one still supported by more than a few of us on the left. From Wordnik.com. [Putting anger aside] Reference
He and an acquiescent Congress have bestowed on the president of the United States the unilateral authority to determine interrogation tactics. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Giraldi: John McCain and Torture] Reference
On Sunday, Pitt was closeted with the Duke of Newcastle, in arranging the new administration, in full confidence that the king was acquiescent. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
New York boss and his acquiescent delegates were stopped from presenting his name to the convention by Roosevelt's assurance that he would fight. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
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