time-server

The author portrays him as a shameless time-server who is redeemed only slightly by his success in the postwar wrangling over slavery.

How the West Was Won Daniel Walker Howe 2010

She was scared I'd do that, take some time-server job and end up like that guy.

Four, in the Morning 2009

She was scared I'd do that, take some time-server job and end up like that guy.

Four, in the Morning Morgan Atwood 2009

They parted with less than their usual degree of reverence and regard; for the steward felt that his worldly wisdom was rebuked by the more disinterested attachment of the waiting-woman, and Mistress Lilias Bradbourne was compelled to consider her old friend as something little better than a time-server.

The Abbot 2008

For although Bush has let a few honest conservative jurists slip into the system – largely by accident or through inattention, no doubt – he has taken special pains in placing rock-ribbed loyalists on the Supreme Court, even elevating one of them, the dim time-server

COURT SHOOTS DOWN BUSH ON "ENEMY COMBATANTS 2007

The vice president's former chief of staff and national-security adviser was no risk-averse, paper-pushing time-server.

Cheney's Cheney 2007

Berger, portrayed as a pasty-faced time-server by Kevin Dunn Col.

09/05/2006 2006

He was rather proud of the integrity of his mind, and of his not being a time-server.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

The devil a puritan, or any thing else he is, but a time-server.

Old Mortality 2004

He was no coward, or time-server, or man-pleaser, but he needed prayer, in order that he might not, through any kind of timidity, fail to declare the whole truth of God, or through fear of men, declare it in an apologetic, hesitating way.

The Weapon of Prayer 1835-1913 1991