timeserver
Example Sentences
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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
If ever there was one, he was a timeserver.
From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude
"But Captain Solis is a nobody ... a timeserver."
From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by E. (Enrique) Munguía
Miss Letitia Blandish, sister of the above, a fawning timeserver, who sponges on the wealthy.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
