obsequiousness
Example Sentences
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I would assume that some of them will gain his favor with elaborate obsequiousness and flamboyant flattery.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025
If you do come, though, he’ll also certainly mock you in private for your excessive obsequiousness.
From Slate • May 18, 2024
In the beginning of the ’90s, when he’s hit with the steroid scandal and other scandals, his response is this little bit of obsequiousness.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2023
Akhtar’s portrait of the artist as a young Muslim exposes both his vanity and his capacity for obsequiousness, particularly around wealthy people.
From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2020
She hearkened little to the insinuations of flattery or the curtseys of obsequiousness, but returned all idle, pretty chatter in its own coin.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
