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
Once, when he’s bitterly mocking his own obsequiousness to patrons, the miming heightens expression; otherwise, it’s superfluous.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
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
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
