These people are utterly obsequious before their foremen or bosses, and it is notorious that nearly always they pay for the privilege of getting and keeping a job.
Beneath his obsequious demeanour, he thought he could detect an uneasy smile as he met him and ushered him into his master's writing-room.
The obsequious lords of the Privy Council summoned Samuel Ward to appear before them.
A few obsequious attendants squat by the house door, awaiting his least signal.
Once placed upon the throne, however, Leo showed himself less obsequious to his old master than was expected.
The obsequious jailer soon appeared with the required keys and the doors of both prison-rooms were speedily unlocked and thrown open by the directions of the sheriff.
And Lord Almeric, an excessively pale, excessively thin young man, handed his hat with a gesture of exhaustion to the obsequious tutor.
Myrrha interested him, he guessed her to be more intelligent than Ada: but her obsequious manners and her ambiguous smile were curiously attractive and repulsive to him at the same time.
Jean-Christophe thanked him curtly, for he did not like such obsequious eagerness, and he hated to be fussed with.
He knew that his pupils wereobsequious with him while they had need of him, and that after they had received all the services they could expect from him they deserted him.
Then he would stop, and bow very low, and breathe lavishly the formulæ of obsequious politeness.
She asked him questions, which Melchior answered in an obsequious voice with formal replies, respectful and servile; but she did not listen to Melchior, and went on teasing the child.
At his command, the obsequious senate of Rome bestowed the Imperial title on Libius Severus, who ascended the throne of the West without emerging from the obscurity of a private condition.
Every order of the state bowed to the new favorite; and their tame and obsequious submission encouraged him to insult the laws, and, what is still more difficult and dangerous, the manners of his country.
Whenever Maximus appeared in public, he was surrounded by a train of grateful and obsequious clients; [2] and it is possible that among these clients, he might deserve and possess some real friends.
And then, by Selina's dictation, she returned a polite, but positive refusal to the obsequious Webberly.
Amongst the rest Sir James Fenton and Lord George Meredith were most obsequious in their attentions, and loudest in their encomiums.
The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
The cowardly and obsequious Roman senate decreed him a temple in Rome.
The petty and obsequious vassal king was caught in Pilate's snare of flattery.
But while obsequiousto human grandeur, he was obdurate to the warnings of God, and died proud and impenitent.
The gentleman with the nosegay in his bosom had now perceived our two friends, and was approaching the young girl with obsequious rapidity.
Mr. Giovanelli, who made a triumphantly obsequious salute, she turned away.
That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower.
An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.
An obsequiousor servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.
A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady.
The survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow.
That he asked any thing else is not known; it is certain that he obtained nothing, though he continued obsequious to the court through the rest of Charles's reign.
Grillo did obsequious reverence, tendering a basket of brown eggs, carefully packed, while at his belt clucked two fat chickens, their feet tied and their heads hanging.
The dogmas are obscure, inconceivable, frightful, and are therefore well calculated to bewilder the imagination and to render the vulgar more obsequious to the will of those who wish to domineer over them.
Obsequious to the suggestions of his priests, he becomes the sport of their caprices, the favourer of their quarrels, and the instrument and accomplice of their follies, which he imagines to be of the greatest importance.
They have horses to ride, and servants to wait upon them more obsequious than the servants of other people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obsequious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
