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Obsequious
"Obsequious" in a Sentence (12 examples)
The obsequious waiter is usually assigned the best table because he always curries favor with his manager and superiors.
Obsequious people make me feel uncomfortable.
He is obsequious to the higher-ups and arrogant towards his underlings.
If Tom senses even the slightest lack of obsequious deference, he explodes into a hail of random and spontaneous insults.
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.
Tom, known to be obsequious, always tried to court favour with the boss.
Tom was obsequious towards his superiors and bullying towards his subordinates.
Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Lord John and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.
Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.
[S]he complained pettishly of the heat and the flies and at length of the walk, and reduced Robert to the antics of an obsequious dog.
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Our ladies were situated as well as it was possible; they had good servants, splendid rooms, obsequious attendants, and had become habituated to the country, so that the loss of the Count was not any thing of moment beyond the pleasure of his society;[…]
[…] the ſuruiuer bound / In filliall obligation for ſome tearme To doe obſequious ſorrowe […]
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