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Meanings of
obsequiousness
in English
Catalan
servilisme
Spanish
sometimiento
Back to the meaning
Abject or cringing submissiveness.
servility
subservience
Catalan
servilisme
Synonyms
Examples for "
servility
"
servility
subservience
Examples for "
servility
"
1
The status of
servility
can never again be tolerated on American soil.
2
Rage, cunning, insolence,
servility
,
and hypocrisy were vilely mixed in the minion.
3
A translation may show its
servility
;
but its elegance is less attainable.
4
But this is due to the condition of
servility
,
not to womanhood.
5
So says the official, returning to his august master with cringing
servility
.
1
Economic backwardness was taken as holy simplicity; ignoble, craven
subservience
as piety.
2
He never had that sense of a family being socialized to
subservience
.
3
The girl didn't accept, leaving Belinda in a position of pleading
subservience
.
4
It is
subservience
to central command and control to a single leader.
5
Stalin also despised the tsars' modish
subservience
to foreign influences and advisers.
Usage of
obsequiousness
in English
1
Not through the mere
obsequiousness
of every one concerned, including the Senate.
2
The traitors could easily be distinguished by their insolence disguised as
obsequiousness
.
3
But, for all his
obsequiousness
,
the admirable Harrow was a persistent diplomat.
4
Startled into
obsequiousness
,
Bodza produced ink and paper from some secret receptacle.
5
Look at the
obsequiousness
of journalists at the White House correspondents dinner.
6
He nodded briefly at Moses Hatch, who greeted him with genial
obsequiousness
.
7
Slavishness to party and
obsequiousness
to the popular whims go hand in hand.
8
The carriages, the trained servants, the
obsequiousness
of the humbler passengers.
9
This shameful sentence was the outcome of mingled terror and
obsequiousness
.
10
The Doge of the humiliated Republic exhibited neither
obsequiousness
nor pride.
11
There was no need for him to make such a show of
obsequiousness
.
12
Besides, the mind and finer feelings are blunted by such
obsequiousness
.
13
But he has sometimes been ridiculed for his public
obsequiousness
to his boss.
14
He had hardly self-control enough to greet Lady Tilchester with his usual
obsequiousness
.
15
Especially as the king's highway of
obsequiousness
is so very broad and easy.
16
Hatred and envy lie rankling at their heart, although hidden by outward
obsequiousness
.
Other examples for "obsequiousness"
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About this term
obsequiousness
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
great obsequiousness
elaborate obsequiousness
much obsequiousness
oily obsequiousness
very obsequiousness
More collocations
Translations for
obsequiousness
Catalan
servilisme
Spanish
sometimiento
obsequiosidad
rendimiento
servilismo
Obsequiousness
through the time
Obsequiousness
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common