timeserving

How To Use timeserving In A Sentence

• They make their student-years but a pretext for a life of rough debauchery, from which they issue with a bought diploma; and, in many cases, satiated and disgusted with their own lives, they dwindle down into the timeserving reactionaries, the worst enemies of free development, because they themselves have abused in youth the little liberty they enjoyed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
• Me and Sam's goin 'on' Midnight Pass 'ter-night, ain't we, Sam?" inquired a young "timeserving" fellow. "Contemptible", by "Casualty"
• Do you think he is doing any better than the 19 of his timeserving, unaccountable colleagues? Michael Smerconish: Instinct of an American Hero
• We have learned to distrust the responses of their timeserving oracles, and to laugh at the ignorant pretensions of their literary artisans. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
• While religious freedom had been secured, philosophy had become timid, official, and timeserving; retentive as FONTENELLE of the truths within its grasp, and fearful to give utterance to aught that might disturb the stillness of the temple, the lecture-room, or fashionable auditory. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
• Political correctness is vast featherbedding trades union of pygmies, runts, and dullards, devoted to timeserving until their pension kicks in. Archive 2007-09-01
• The antecedents of its principal members are those of timeserving politicians. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
• A melancholy and monitory lesson this, to all timeserving and temporising statesmen! The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• [FN#94] Here the silence is of cowardice and the passage is a fling at the "timeserving" of the Olema, a favourite theme, like Arabian nights. English