timeserver
Example Sentences
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The problem is bucked to Carlton-Browne of Miscellaneous Territories, a timeserver whose troutlike face mirrors his intelligence.
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
"But Captain Solis is a nobody ... a timeserver."
From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by Munguía, E. (Enrique)
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
If ever there was one, he was a timeserver.
From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony
