Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit.
1
The antecedents of its principal members are those of timeserving politicians.
2
Hypocrisy and timeserving above are accompanied by hypocrisy and timeserving below.
3
Thusnelda, however, sympathized far more with the heroic spirit of her lover than with the timeserving policy of her father.
4
We have learned to distrust the responses of their timeserving oracles, and to laugh at the ignorant pretensions of their literary artisans.