obsequiousness
Example Sentences
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In response to her party's obsequiousness, Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania said recently, "There is no poll result that could make me turn on marginalized people."
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2025
Besides showing a general obsequiousness to the tech industry and an ignorance of people’s real financial problems, it’s worth thinking about the examples being set by Adams, Suarez, and their peers.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2021
He later went on to write his famous realpolitik primer, “The Prince,” dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici with an obsequiousness now considered to have been just a little tongue-in-cheek.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2020
The film was a New York Times Critic's Pick, with Janet Maslin writing that Damon played the role “with a fine, tricky mix of obsequiousness and ruthlessness.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2019
After that, as products of very different backgrounds they were continually scared stiff of hurting each other’s feelings; hence they understood and tolerated their respective foibles almost to the point of obsequiousness.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
