be obsequious
Example Sentences
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You need someone who has a large ego but will be obsequious.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024
In fact it will not be pure intelligence at all, but rather a faculty that may be obsequious to all the lower passions.
From Essays on Art by Clutton-Brock, A. (Arthur)
They were trained to serve them, to be obsequious and obliging; it would have been too much to expect that they should suddenly take command and order them about.
From Titanic by Young, Filson
McKnight objects that nobody can poke his head through a curtain and be obsequious.
From The Man in Lower Ten by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
I never knew before that dogs could be obsequious!
From The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury by Coolidge, Asenath Carver
