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
He scorned the ways of the demagogue and the timeserver, and believed that "men should be what they seem."
He was warned by friends, and at last officially told that he could not be retained in the department if he persisted in stigmatizing its chief as a fool, a timeserver, no matter what.
From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Julia Ward Howe
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
