obsequious

In a sentence

Six example sentences with obsequious, each labelled with its topic.

• The regional manager grew obsequious whenever head office visited, carrying bags and laughing at jokes nobody else had heard.

  Business

• The butler is so obsequious that he refolds the newspaper twice before handing it over and apologises for the weather.

  Movies

• The press corps turned obsequious for a season, printing the mayor's phrasing word for word and asking nothing sharp.

  Politics

• Dickens gave the world an obsequious clerk who wrings his hands, calls himself humble, and plots against his employer.

  Literature

• The founder grew obsequious around investors, agreeing with every suggestion in the room and reversing his roadmap by lunch.

  Startups

• The hotel's obsequious concierge bowed at every passing guest and apologized for rain he could not possibly control.

  Travel

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More Literary words

• fractious
• propitiate
• invective
• inchoate
• encomium
• puerile
• calumny
• blandishment
• timorous
• miscreant
• maladroit
• solecism