timeserver

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Daring Author C�line makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many Catholic observers, nonetheless, believe Cardinal Innitzer is no timeserver but a sincere, bewildered wrong-guesser who believed that Catholicism could honestly come to terms with Hitlerism.

From Time Magazine Archive

The problem is bucked to Carlton-Browne of Miscellaneous Territories, a timeserver whose troutlike face mirrors his intelligence.

From Time Magazine Archive

If he was a timeserver and leagued with my Lord Warwick's faction in the Company, he was a jovial sinner.

From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary

If ever there was one, he was a timeserver.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony