Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsequiousness.
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- noun The state of being
obsequious ;unctuousness
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Examples
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Most effusive obsequity toward the hosts: Steven Spielberg called Time "an institution that has always strived to tell the truth."
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Saddam Snubbed at Time Bash 1998
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Most effusive obsequity toward the hosts: Steven Spielberg called Time "an institution that has always strived to tell the truth."
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Saddam Snubbed at Time Bash 1998
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'Since that is his condition, I must leave Harlan here,' he said to a corpulent, moon-faced individual who bowed with oily obsequity at each phrase.
Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967
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He was quite a young man, with shifting grey eyes, and he saluted the Provincial with a nervous obsequity which was unpleasant to look upon.
The Slave of the Lamp Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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This decays rapidly into claims that, to the extent that atheists are permitted to advocate for science at all, it should only be done from a position of such abject obsequity that there is no danger of calling much attention to themselves.
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