obsequiousness
Example Sentences
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I would assume that some of them will gain his favor with elaborate obsequiousness and flamboyant flattery.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
If you do come, though, he’ll also certainly mock you in private for your excessive obsequiousness.
From Slate ● May 18, 2024
Naipaul expressed for Caribbean culture, his obsequiousness in regards to the British Empire and his misogyny.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2020
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
She hearkened little to the insinuations of flattery or the curtseys of obsequiousness, but returned all idle, pretty chatter in its own coin.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
