obsequious in a sentence
Examples
- He has trained bishops that the path of advancement is obsequious obedience to himself.
- "He's aggressive without being obsequious, ambitous without being greedy.
- Several colleagues remarked that he seemed to be a bit too obsequious to superiors.
- But Pipes see an " obsequious"
- The Riksdag of 1778 had been obsequious; the Riksdag of 1786 was mutinous.
- This obsequious compliment need not be taken seriously.
- Gray asked more than 20 questions, and not one could be viewed as obsequious.
- The service is careful but never obsequious.
- The dialogue is almost apologetic and obsequious.
- Wagner's early correspondence with Meyerbeer, up to 1846, is cringingly obsequious.