How To Use obsequiousness In A Sentence
- But the prime minister obsequiousness to him is prompting revolt and disgust in the ranks of his Labor Party against him.
- Fischer's obsequiousness is not simply, or even primarily, a reflection of his subjective cowardice and political spinelessness.
- The stark statement of the facts was followed by a panegyric which was the soul and model of obsequiousness. THE SCAR
- The prime minister had destroyed the industrial base with fanatical cruelty, with an impunity largely supplied by the obsequiousness and weakness of the opposition.
- My approach to the City is not one of hostility, or of obsequiousness. It really is just ‘business as usual’… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
- But in the intervening years, the State Department's refusal to press for reform in that country turned into humiliating obsequiousness.
- Didas 'instructions were for the time being to insinuate himself by every kind of obsequiousness into Demetrius' confidence and intimacy so as to be able to draw out all his secrets and ascertain his hidden sentiments. The History of Rome, Vol. VI
- I told him to get lost and leave me alone and his tone quickly changed from obsequiousness to outright anger.
- Obsequiousness tends to refer to a desire to ingratiate oneself, and to win benefits through flattery.
- Which being the case, no wonder if error, oiled with obsequiousness, (which generally gains friends, though deserves none worth having,) has often the advantage of truth, and thereby slides more easily and intimately into the fool's bosom, than the uncourtliness of truth will suffer it to do. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.