[ adv ] in an obedient manner <adv.all> obediently she slipped off her right shoe and stocking
Obediently \O*be"di*ent*ly\, adv. In an obedient manner; with obedience.
Without liquidity from the junk-bond market or cash flow from profits, they look to the government, which obediently assists the natural motions of the capitalist economy with charity in the form of cuts in the capital-gains tax rate or bailouts.
So millions of kids obediently opened their mouths and swallowed that stuff, and it was awful," he said.
But go she obediently does, and guess who sits right next to her.
The woman sees him coming, broom in hand, and she obediently takes the broom and sweeps up the trash she has spilled.
Bob ran down to the grocery store and obediently waited in the darkness, until his father came and fetched him.