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timeserver

[tahym-sur-ver] / ˈtaɪmˌsɜr vər /
NOUN
opportunist
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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

"But Captain Solis is a nobody ... a timeserver."

From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by Munguía, E. (Enrique)

He scorned the ways of the demagogue and the timeserver, and believed that "men should be what they seem."

From Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session by Various

He was warned by friends, and at last officially told that he could not be retained in the department if he persisted in stigmatizing its chief as a fool, a timeserver, no matter what.

From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Howe, Julia Ward




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