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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)
  • At Naoetsu, most of the guards stayed in camp, their haughtiness replaced by gushing obsequiousness.  (source)
    obsequiousness = excessive eagerness to flatter or serve
  • 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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  • He had perfected his patter to the police, a certain obsequious innocence peppered with wonder about their procedures or useless ideas that he presented as if they might help.  (source)
    obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
  • 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
  • His usual hostility had been replaced with a slimy 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.
  • The priests approach them, carrying torches, their shaggy white heads bent, obsequious.  (source)
    obsequious = eager to serve -- in an exceedingly humble manner
  • 'Certainly, Mr Teng,' said the second clerk obsequiously.  (source)
    obsequiously = eager to flatter or serve
  • 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
  • Can you be obsequious?  (source)
    obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
  • The proprietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk.  (source)
    obsequiously = in a manner that is excessively eager to flatter or serve
  • ...he had come out with great obsequiousness to assist at...  (source)
    obsequiousness = excessive eagerness to flatter or serve
  • No car has ever had such obsequious treatment as did Rocinante as we moved slowly on. Every irregularity in the road hurt me clear through. We crawled along at not more than five miles an hour.  (source)
    obsequious = excessively eager to serve
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