The taller one stepped back in a deferential manner.

He spoke slowly to Tully, his manner somehow less deferential than his companions'.

"These beeries are a simple case," Andro said, stepping forward in a deferential manner.

That, along with a courteous and deferential manner, gives him the air of a priest.

The secretary was standing by in a deferential manner.

He inclined his head slightly in a deferential manner and then walked out, the door slamming shut solidly behind him.

He can be overbearing, then quickly catch himself and assume the deferential manner of a former altar boy, which he is.

The proprietor was an old man with a gnomish face and a deferential manner.

Her tone was gently mocking, as if she was trying to puncture my deferential manner.

Very early she had learned deferential manners.