Obsequious

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  • adjective. Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Promptly obedient or submissive to the will of another; ever ready to obey, serve, or assist; compliant; dutiful.
  • Hence Servilely complaisant; showing a mean readiness to fall in with the will of another; cringing; fawning; sycophantic.
  • Synonyms Servile, slavish, sycophantic. See obedience.
  • Funereal; pertaining to funeral rites.
  • Absorbed in grief, as a mourner at a funeral.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
  • adjective. Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
  • adjective. Excessively eager to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
  • adjective. attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
  • Word Usage
    "In addition, there's a new book about Shyamalan, The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale and the making of this film, which is apparently an exercise in obsequious flattery."
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