timeserver
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The problem is bucked to Carlton-Browne of Miscellaneous Territories, a timeserver whose troutlike face mirrors his intelligence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
If he was a timeserver and leagued with my Lord Warwick's faction in the Company, he was a jovial sinner.
From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
An ambitious timeserver like Loménie, or a contented adherent of use and wont like Morellet, might well regard such considerations as the products of a weak and eccentric scrupulosity.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by John Morley
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