obsequiousness
Example Sentences
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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
After that, as products of very different backgrounds they were continually scared stiff of hurting each other’s feelings; hence they understood and tolerated their respective foibles almost to the point of obsequiousness.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
