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Meanings of timeserving in English

Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit.

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        1
        The antecedents of its principal members are those of timeserving politicians.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 / A Magazi...
        2
        Hypocrisy and timeserving above are accompanied by hypocrisy and timeserving below.
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        3
        Thusnelda, however, sympathized far more with the heroic spirit of her lover than with the timeserving policy of her father.
        The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Ris...
        4
        We have learned to distrust the responses of their timeserving oracles, and to laugh at the ignorant pretensions of their literary artisans.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 / A Magazin...
        Timeserving through the time