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Obsequious meaning
Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile. | Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes. | Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
Synonyms of Obsequious
Example sentences (10)
If Gaetz was obsequious towards the president before his gutsy Iran vote, he’ll just have to be twice as obsequious afterward in order to return to Trump’s good graces.
Even the previously ardent republican Malcolm Turnbull became silent about the issue while in office, while most of the others have been even more obsequious, no matter what their political leanings.
Former US president Al Gore this “obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word”.
No prob. A healthy tradition of a thousand years was flushed down the sewer and substituted overnight by an obsequious, demeaning and silly carbon copy of an entirely alien prototype.
Veteran character actor Roshan Seth played the Prime Minister of Pankot in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, an obsequious man with the Maharaja's ear who later became a villain.
Vice President Kamala Harris polls even lower — despite the obsequious efforts of the most biased media in history that has, in effect, merged with the Democratic Party.
It stands for 'Dominus Obsequious Sororium' - which translates to Master over Slave Women in Latin.
Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth are much amused by his obsequious veneration of his employer, the noble Lady Catherine de Bourgh, as well as by his self-important and pedantic nature.
She is genuinely surprised (and somewhat disgusted) when Mr Elton declares his love for her—much in the way Elizabeth Bennet reacts to the obsequious Mr Collins, also a parson.
The obsequious courtiers naturally replied "You, O Commander of the Faithful!", but the Caliph said no.