obsequious
IPA: ʌbsˈikwiʌs
adjective
- Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
- (archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
- (obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
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Examples of "obsequious" in Sentences
- They could be better and less obsequious.
- That seems a little pompous and obsequious.
- Whoever wrote that seems excessively obsequious.
- They are generally obedient, pliant, and obsequious.
- The parliament was quite obsequious towards the king.
- House elves are generally obedient, pliant, and obsequious.
- This obsequious compliment is scarcely to be taken seriously.
- Sorry if that seems a little pompous and obsequious, but it's true.
- That is something like friendship, between being obsequious and surly.
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