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excessively eager to flatter or serve- In the film, Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts character loved being served by obsequious sales clerks.
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
- She is respectful without being obsequious.
- He made his solemn, obsequious bow, and went out.Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
- McSouthers was not a stupid man; if only he was less obsequious—and less of a gossip.Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game
- I gave the name Jenks at the podium, and the obsequious maître d' led me upstairs to a small private room with a fire crackling in a stone hearth.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- His usual hostility had been replaced with a slimy obsequiousness.Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
- ...the most obsequious and subservient to the will and passions of their master.Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
- Although Sir Gilbert had been courteous, almost obsequious, the fabric he represented had in no wise bowed its head.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- At Naoetsu, most of the guards stayed in camp, their haughtiness replaced by gushing obsequiousness.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- The priests approach them, carrying torches, their shaggy white heads bent, obsequious.John Gardner -- Grendel
- 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.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- I see you are obsequious in your love,William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- 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.John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
- I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not;Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- The proprietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk.James Joyce -- Dubliners
- The doctor, flattered at this unexpected title, launched out into obsequious phrases.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- 'Certainly, Mr Teng,' said the second clerk obsequiously.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- and in obsequious fondness crowd to his presenceWilliam Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
- ...he had come out with great obsequiousness to assist at...Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- A marquis (watching De Guiche, who comes down from Roxane's box, and crosses the pit surrounded by obsequious noblemen)Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
obsequiousness = excessive eagerness to flatter or serve
(Editor's note: 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.)
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
obsequiousness = excessive eagerness to flatter or serve
(Editor's note: 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.)
obsequious = eager to serve — in an exceedingly humble manner
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
obsequiousness = excessive eagerness to flatter or serve
(Editor's note: 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.)
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
obsequiously = in a manner that is excessively eager to flatter or serve
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
obsequiously = eager to flatter or serve
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
obsequiousness = excessive eagerness to flatter or serve
(Editor's note: 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.)
obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
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