obsequiousness

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In response to her party's obsequiousness, Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania said recently, "There is no poll result that could make me turn on marginalized people."

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2025

If you do come, though, he’ll also certainly mock you in private for your excessive obsequiousness.

From Slate • May 18, 2024

But his pushback was slathered with so much obsequiousness that it was easy to miss.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2021

He later went on to write his famous realpolitik primer, “The Prince,” dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici with an obsequiousness now considered to have been just a little tongue-in-cheek.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 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