Definition of obsequious

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Obsequious (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite..

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Sycophantish :: Sycophantical (a.) Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic.
Morigerous :: Morigerous (a.) Obedient; obsequious.
Satellite :: Satellite (n.) An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent..
Worship :: Worship (a.) Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
Independent :: Independent (a.) Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind..
Assentation :: Assentation (n.) Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence..
Flexure :: Flexure (n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending..
Toadeater :: Toadeater (n.) A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady..
Vernility :: Vernility (n.) Fawning or obsequious behavior; servility.
Obsequious :: Obsequious (a.) Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted..
Flunky :: Flunky (n.) One who is obsequious or cringing; a snob.
Timeserver :: Timeserver (n.) One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
Timeserving :: Timeserving (n.) An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity..
Sycophant :: Sycophancy (n.) Obsequious flattery; servility.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower..
Obsequent :: Obsequent (a.) Obedient; submissive; obsequious.
Sycophant :: Sycophant (v. t.) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
Knee-crooking :: Knee-crooking (a.) Obsequious; fawning; cringing.
Fashionist :: Fashionist (n.) An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.
Suppled :: Supple (a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
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