obsequious

Sitting in the dais, next to Speaker Johnson, she would be on camera throughout the speech, which would no doubt contain lines designed to make her seem—in the eyes of some viewers—obsequious to Israel if she applauded and hostile if she did not.

Chabria: It was, as you put it, like watching a Friars roast — just one obsequious testimonial after another.

“Obsequious, oversized and unaccountably frightening” declared the Washington Post’s critic Sebastian Smee.

“The Russian political elite have grown more pliant in implementing Putin’s orders and more obsequious to his paranoid worldview,” he wrote.

Mr. Pancholy played the obsequious assistant to Alec Baldwin’s character on the TV show “30 Rock” and voiced Baljeet in the cartoon “Phineas and Ferb.”