timeserver

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Daring Author C�line makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone.

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

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

He scorned the ways of the demagogue and the timeserver, and believed that "men should be what they seem."

From Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session by Various

If ever there was one, he was a timeserver.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony