obedient
to do what you are told
TRANSLATION
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STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
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A new safety device that smiles at OBEDIENT drivers and cries at speeding motorists is being used by police.
(BBC News)
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - OBEDIENT to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
- American political activist Angela Davis
A new safety device that smiles at OBEDIENT drivers and cries at speeding motorists is being used by police.
(BBC News)
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - OBEDIENT to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
- American political activist Angela Davis
Did you
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obedient
adjective
- doing, or willing to do, what you have been told to do by someone in authority
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The obedient husband
One day, everyone on earth dies and goes to heaven.
God greets everyone upon their arrival and announces: "I want the men to make two lines. One line for the men that dominated their women on earth and the other line for the men that were dominated by their women. Also, I want all the women to go with St. Peter. I'll be back in a while"
God re-appeared and noticed that the women were gone and that the men had formed two lines. The line of men that were dominated by their women was 100 miles long, and in the line of men that dominated their women, there was only one man.
God was not pleased "You men should be ashamed of yourselves. I created you in my image and expected all of you to be the king in your family. Look, only one of my sons has made me proud. Learn from him! Tell them my son, how did you manage to be the only one in this line?"
The man replied, "I'm not sure. My wife told me to stand here."
Etymology: from the Old French obedient (11th century) and from the Latin obedientem (nominative - obediens), past participle of oboedire, meaning "to obey".
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SYNONYMS
acquiescent, compliant, docile, subservient, tame, under control
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"Being obedient doesn't always advance one's career."
adjective
- doing, or willing to do, what you have been told to do by someone in authority
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The obedient husband
One day, everyone on earth dies and goes to heaven.
God greets everyone upon their arrival and announces: "I want the men to make two lines. One line for the men that dominated their women on earth and the other line for the men that were dominated by their women. Also, I want all the women to go with St. Peter. I'll be back in a while"
God re-appeared and noticed that the women were gone and that the men had formed two lines. The line of men that were dominated by their women was 100 miles long, and in the line of men that dominated their women, there was only one man.
God was not pleased "You men should be ashamed of yourselves. I created you in my image and expected all of you to be the king in your family. Look, only one of my sons has made me proud. Learn from him! Tell them my son, how did you manage to be the only one in this line?"
The man replied, "I'm not sure. My wife told me to stand here."
Etymology: from the Old French obedient (11th century) and from the Latin obedientem (nominative - obediens), past participle of oboedire, meaning "to obey".
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SYNONYMS
acquiescent, compliant, docile, subservient, tame, under control
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Being obedient doesn't always advance one's career."
