obsequious in a sentence

Examples

1. But he will have surrounded himself with obsequious courtiers.
2. And the sales staff had better be properly obsequious.
3. You'd think they would be humble, grateful, even obsequious.
4. He regularly sent obsequious letters of praise to the atheist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
5. They thus appear as " obedient, obsequious servants of a ruler ".
6. Controversy erupted over the definition of the word " obsequious ".
7. Moi favors flattering news, like the obsequious televised accounts of his daily activities.
8. NPR's obsequious surrender speaks for itself.
9. Cronkite was respectful without being even slightly obsequious, and Frank was unusually forthcoming.
10. He had become an obsequious Jonah, comfortable in the belly of the whale.