Sample Sentences for
obsequious
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    I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not;  (source)
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    I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff was afflicted, or blessed, with something of his own obsequious suavity.  (source)
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    At such a moment, the arrival of her friend was a sincere pleasure to Elizabeth, though in the course of their meetings she must sometimes think the pleasure dearly bought, when she saw Mr. Darcy exposed to all the parading and obsequious civility of her husband.  (source)
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    The priests approach them, carrying torches, their shaggy white heads bent, obsequious.  (source)
    obsequious = eager to serve -- in an exceedingly humble manner
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    The three billion people weren't actually there, but they watched his every gesture through the eyes of a small robot tri-D camera which hovered obsequiously in the air nearby.  (source)
    obsequiously = excessively eager to serve
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    At Naoetsu, most of the guards stayed in camp, their haughtiness replaced by gushing obsequiousness.  (source)
    obsequiousness = excessive eagerness to flatter or serve
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    a white person, greeting her after the service with the obsequious smile and false sincerity that blacks reserve for white folks when they don't know them that well or don't trust them, or both.  (source)
    obsequious = excessively eager to flatter
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    'Certainly, Mr Teng,' said the second clerk obsequiously.  (source)
    obsequiously = eager to flatter or serve
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    Yet when I was white, I received the brotherly-love smiles and the privileges from whites and the hate stares or obsequiousness from the Negroes.  (source)
    obsequiousness = excessive eagerness to flatter or serve
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    Can you be obsequious?  (source)
    obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
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    At the inn, as I entered, I looked about me with so black a countenance as made the attendants tremble; not a look did they exchange in my presence; but obsequiously took my orders, led me to a private room, and brought me wherewithal to write.  (source)
    obsequiously = in a manner that is excessively eager to flatter or serve
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    His usual hostility had been replaced with a slimy obsequiousness.  (source)
    obsequiousness = excessive eagerness to flatter or serve
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    Although he had no friends he was welcomed by his obsequious class-mates and took up a natural and cold position of leadership in the schoolyard.  (source)
    obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
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