Obsequious

Terjemahan dari obsequious
adjektiva
patuh
obedient, submissive, docile, dutiful, subservient, obsequious
menurut
obliging, willing, dutiful, complaisant, obsequious
bersifat merendahkan diri
servile, obsequious
Definisi obsequious
adjektiva
obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
they were served by obsequious waiters
sinonim: servile, ingratiating, sycophantic, fawning, unctuous, oily, oleaginous, groveling, cringing, subservient, submissive, slavish, brown-nosing, bootlicking, smarmy, ass-kissing
Sinonim
adjektiva
  • servile, ingratiating, sycophantic, fawning, unctuous, oily, oleaginous, groveling, cringing,subservient, submissive, slavish, brown-nosing, bootlicking, smarmy, ass-kissing
  • fawning, toadyish, sycophantic, bootlicking
Contoh
They are curiously obsequious , seeming to promise presidents and prime ministers a favourable verdict in return for a few invitations, a few decorations.
Submission here means to be subsequent or responsive, not necessarily obsequious or subservient.
Diamond has a gentle, self-effacing style about him without seeming obsequious .
We Catholics need to possess greater wisdom than to merely fall for somebody who is obsequious , nice, polite and reasonable.
As is always the case in France, I am not sure if she reads my apology as sufficiently humble or merely obsequious .
The person he hires will be insipid and obsequious .
Paris himself turns out to be an obsequious toady in Domitian’s heady presence.
My ghostly waiter was preferable to the obsequious , hovering variety which pop up like pantomime villains to ask if everything is all right just as you are about to start chewing.
Everyone was desperately failing to be cool about the presence of this A list Hollywood actor, but the first few questions were obsequious and embarrassing.
The award will be given annually to the journo who produces the greatest volume of obsequious offal about a sports ‘hero’.
Her insatiable desire to be stroked, bolstered, flattered, was met by Burrell with the obsequiousenthusiasm of a knight offering the chasteness of courtly love.
They’ve filled their almost-claustrophobic room with towering flower bouquets and perhaps a few too many obsequious waiters.
Woodward’s obsequious style minimised the impact.
Like spoiled children, they can demand, stamp their feet, refuse to vote, be fickle and whimsical, expecting MPs to act as obsequious valets, while distrusting them all along.
They’re surrounded by heavy linen, sparkling crystal, gleaming silver, obsequious waiters, and an embarrassment of champagne glasses.
Randy is Mr. Lahey’s obsequious sidekick, lover and Sunnyvale’s assistant trailer park supervisor.
He was obedient to his Christchurch bosses, but not at all obsequious .
He cuddled up to his colleagues, begging for approval – he was obsequious , smart, slippery.
In fact, the figure lounging in front of me seems in some respects more human than fox, effortlessly graceful, endearing without being obsequious , and persistently humorous.
Thus approached, I would smile benignly and direct the appropriately obsequious customer toward the objects of his desiring.
If we were a genuine republic, one of our leading businessmen would not have dared to obsequiouslyaccept a knighthood from a British monarch.
The prime minister had destroyed the industrial base with fanatical cruelty, with an impunity largely supplied by the obsequiousness and weakness of the opposition.
‘I’ve always been by your side, Trist,’ Marvin whined obsequiously .
Make note of the incoherent speech, grammatical errors, cutesy nicknames with reporters, and crankiness from the president and obsequiousness from the press.
But in the intervening years, the State Department’s refusal to press for reform in that country turned into humiliating obsequiousness .
In the past, Percy served as comic relief, a stuffed shirt whose obsequiousness toward authority figures was matched only by his imperiousness toward younger students.
Just a little more than a year ago, the Senate obsequiously handed to the President the constitutional authority to declare war.
But the prime minister obsequiousness to him is prompting revolt and disgust in the ranks of his Labor Party against him.
A liveried waiter comes across, bows obsequiously , and asks George if he would care for the salmon.
‘Thank you, señor,’ the man said obsequiously , pocketing all the money.

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