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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    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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    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)
    obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
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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)
    obsequious = excessively eager to flatter or serve
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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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    Unlike the Danes, these Orientals do not demand the obsequious homage of lowered top-sails from the endless procession of ships before the wind, which for centuries past, by night and by day, have passed between the islands of Sumatra and Java, freighted with the costliest cargoes of the east.  (source)
    obsequious = excessive submissiveness (to serve and flatter)
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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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    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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    The elaborate character of the frame had made the picture extremely bulky, and now and then, in spite of the obsequious protests of Mr. Hubbard, who had the true tradesman's spirited dislike of seeing a gentleman doing anything useful, Dorian put his hand to it so as to help them.  (source)
    obsequious = excessively eagerness to serve
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    'Certainly, Mr Teng,' said the second clerk obsequiously.  (source)
    obsequiously = eager to flatter or serve
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    ...he had come out with great obsequiousness to assist at...  (source)
    obsequiousness = excessive eagerness to flatter or serve
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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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