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obsequiously

adverb as in servilely

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He laughed easily, but not ostentatiously, or obsequiously.

A state of permanent war creates complex bureaucracies, sustained by compliant politicians, journalists, scientists, technocrats and academics, who obsequiously serve the war machine.

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Strip away these ideologues' medals and fancy degrees, and you find craven careerists who obsequiously serve the war industry that ensures their promotions and showers them with money.

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Herschel obsequiously named that planet Georgium Sidus to the delight of King George III, who later offered him a salary with the title of “the King’s Astronomer.”

His voice strained by anger, Putin charged that Russians who oppose the war in Ukraine were a “fifth column” obsequiously serving Western interests and ready to “sell their own mother.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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