How To Use obsequiously In A Sentence
- Erect as a Buckingham Palace guard, he gets his laughs with his eyes, endlessly bulging at the Prime Minister's lapses, and with his obsequiously dominating tone of voice. David Finkle: First Nighter: Yes, Prime Minister Prime Stage Comedy Meat
- It reminds the narrator of his grandfather, an individual repressed by the system who went through his entire life obsequiously saying yes to all the men in power.
- When everyone saw the mayor, they all bowed obsequiously – he was the only exception.
- You must guard against those who fawn upon you and bow obsequiously before you!
- Pikoli's lawyers did not agree that he should have "obsequiously" obeyed Mbeki over the time frame of Selebi's arrest. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Just a little more than a year ago, the Senate obsequiously handed to the President the constitutional authority to declare war.
- You must guard against those who fawn upon you and bow obsequiously before you!
- A liveried waiter comes across, bows obsequiously, and asks George if he would care for the salmon.
- If we were a genuine republic, one of our leading businessmen would not have dared to obsequiously accept a knighthood from a British monarch.
- Kissinger, who obsequiously went along with Nixon's expansion of the war, with the bombing of peasant villages in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
