Here are six steps to keep your deference in check:

Deference is defined as “polite submission and respect”. But deference is often more powerful than we think it is. If you show deference to your superiors, they feel good because they feel entitled to it. If you defer to your peers, they feel good because you didn’t have to.

noun. reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes. distinction or reputation attaching to a person or thing and thus possessing a cachet for others or for the public: The new discothèque has great prestige with the jet set.

1. Don’t fawn over people for taking the time to meet with you.
2. Avoid the temptation to give a lengthy history or background.
3. Make the time worth their while by being concise.
4. Allow ample time for questions and be ready to go where your audience wants you to go.

used to refer to someone, usually a woman, who has reacted very angrily to something, especially the fact that her husband or lover has been unfaithful See scorn in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

n. 1 open contempt or disdain for a person or thing; derision. 2 an object of contempt or derision.

Noun. 1. scorner – a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression. sneerer. disagreeable person, unpleasant person – a person who is not pleasant or agreeable.

A quarrelsome wife devalues him as a man using words and body language. The very man who is designed to lead, protect and provide for her and her family. She’s always in his face about how he ought to do more, do better, be better, but then is never satisfied with his efforts. That’s a quarrelsome wife.

noun. a person who mocks or makes fun of someone or something, often of religion or moral values:We need courage when facing scoffers who jeer at our faith and make ironic comments about it.

The bible makes a difference between the sinner and the ungodly, in simple terms it is the difference between the bad and the worst. Impious or ungodly means contrary to piety (devotion, equanimity, stability, firmness), to mercy (compassion, amability, affability, benevolence, benedicence).

: criticism for a fault : rebuke.

A reproof is a negative comment, reprimand, or rebuke.

the act of reproving, censuring, or rebuking. an expression of censure or rebuke.

When used as verbs, rebuke means to criticise harshly, whereas reproof means to proof again. Rebuke as a noun: A harsh criticism.

verb (used with object), re·proved, re·prov·ing. to criticize or correct, especially gently: to reprove a pupil for making a mistake. to disapprove of strongly; censure: to reprove a bad decision.

Reprove in a Sentence ?

1. My father will more than likely reprove of my new boyfriend and chase him away like he has done all the others.
2. If the wealthy woman marries a man outside of her race, her racist father will reprove the relationship.

Verb. scold, upbraid, berate, rail, revile, vituperate mean to reproach angrily and abusively. scold implies rebuking in irritation or ill temper justly or unjustly.