be obsequious
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You need someone who has a large ego but will be obsequious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
In fact it will not be pure intelligence at all, but rather a faculty that may be obsequious to all the lower passions.
From Essays on Art by A. (Arthur) Clutton-Brock
McKnight objects that nobody can poke his head through a curtain and be obsequious.
From The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart
I never knew before that dogs could be obsequious!
From The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury by Asenath Carver Coolidge
They were trained to serve them, to be obsequious and obliging; it would have been too much to expect that they should suddenly take command and order them about.
From Titanic by Filson Young
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