Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
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Examples for "obsequious "
Examples for "obsequious "
1 In a few minutes the obsequious clerk came blustering down the hall:
2 To someone with a higher Party position, Li can be so obsequious .
3 I assented and Agathemer came in, as smiling and obsequious as always.
4 He is wide-awake and obsequious enough, however, at backsheesh-time in the morning.
5 The Emîr laughed again, which was the signal for an obsequious roar.
1 No such special pleading or fawning re-enactment is necessary: that isn't fidelity.
2 He accused them of fawning on the rich and despising the poor.
3 I prefer you as the bulldog, rather than as the fawning cur.
4 His fawning manners and insinuating language varied according to the people addressed.
5 His manner vacillated between a kind of hateful hostility and craven fawning .
1 But the crawling, bootlicking carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, is changed into a respectable, guileless man with an income.
2 Dorotea could have her bootlicking faction in the Imperial Palace; Valya intended to rejoin Raquella, as a Reverend Mother.
3 He looked at Tigerman, to be sure this display of bootlicking was noted, and added, The police are convinced Daniels killed himself.
1 His age may have been fifty; his air was mean and sycophantic .
2 As scheming and sycophantic as any royal family in Adarlan, she supposed.
3 The men who praised Cesare, the historian tells us, were sycophantic courtiers.
4 She's amazing, considering the sickly, sycophantic atmosphere she's been brought up in.
5 Twenty years ago this prize would have been sycophantic but maybe more justified.
6 Frontinus's glance however, told him that the governor knew he was being sycophantic .
7 He has been encouraged to believe this by certain sycophantic admirers.
8 The trusty had a silly, sycophantic manner of raising one hand in salute.
9 He used my name, giving it the personal touch, without being too sycophantic .
10 To no one, however, was he so completely sycophantic as to the Archdeacon.
11 Prettilove, who has a sycophantic sense of humour, burst into a loud guffaw.
12 Then, as the Yorkers around me broke into sycophantic laughter, I looked up.
13 Fifanti's mean, sycophantic air fell away from him as by magic.
14 A discreet sycophantic smile from the group at this devastating witticism!
15 A bought and paid for sycophantic media works hard to keep the fiction alive.
16 Another production which portrayed Mugabe surrounded by sycophantic "yes men" was banned.
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