From a place in which everyone knew his place, it has become one of the most delightfully undeferential places on earth. From Wordnik.com. [Why The Monarchy Must Go] Reference
She praises the groups who took part in the antinuclear protests at Greenham Common, helped to halt roadbuilding projects through ancient forests, and challenged English laws against New Age travelers — laws which she sees as designed to keep "the undeserving and undeferential poor" in the cities, leaving the countryside as a refuge for the upper and middle classes. From Wordnik.com. [Bothered and Bewildered] Reference
PHILLIPS: The British press has a deserved reputation for being extremely bloody minded, taking no prisoners, being, I think, by the standards of many continental countries in Europe and by the standards of many American newspapers, extremely rude, extremely impolite, extremely direct, and extremely undeferential to authority, which I happen to think are our particular democratic strengths. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 14, 2005] Reference
Perhaps he had an animus against these bumptious, undeferential, overcritical Americans, and thought it was time to give one of them. From Wordnik.com. [In the Claws of the German Eagle] Reference
Long fossilised himself in the country's affections, he is an almost unchanging fixture, a permanent source of reverence in an increasingly undeferential society. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The King's Speech has the double whammy of not just the predicament - a desperately shy, unconfident man having to take on a terrifying public role - but the development of a "real" and "equal" relationship with an insistently undeferential commoner. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
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