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

To be obsequious to a non-drinker was a waste of time.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann

He felt it necessary to be obsequious to Phœbe, after the terrible mistake he had made.

From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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

All the relatives of the bridegroom had to be obsequious to the bride, to her parents, and to all her relatives, so long as those years of service lasted.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various