| 单词 | obsequious-looking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasobsequious-looking a. Unduly or servilely compliant; overly submissive; manifesting or characterized by servility; fawning, sycophantic. Also obsequious-looking. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective] go-by-ground?a1300 thrall1398 abjectc1430 manly?c1430 servicious1440 serviceable1483 servile1537 tame1563 slavish1565 demiss1572 submissive1572 cringing1579 fawning1585 incrouching?1593 vassal1594 scraping1599 obsequious1602 spaniel1606 observing1609 deprostrate1610 supplea1616 vernile1623 shrugging1629 wormy1640 compliable1641 thrall-like1641 obeisant1642 inservient1646 truckling1656 cringeling1693 benecking1705 subservient1714 footman-like1776 bingeing1805 sidling1821 toadying1863 crawlsome1904 toadyish1909 crawling1941 ass-kissing1942 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B3 With most obsequious, sleek-brow'd intertain. 1670 A. Marvell Let. 28 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 318 The House was thin and obsequious. 1728 J. Swift Intelligencer (1729) No. 7. 59 He had now acquired a low, obsequious, awkward Bow. 1788 A. Hamilton in Federalist Papers i The greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues and ending tyrants. 1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage III. i. 5 This Grace was flanked by an obsequious looking gentleman, who was slightly named, as General Carver. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) i. 4 Following him out, with most obsequious politeness. 1889 R. Brydall Art in Scotl. vii. 131 The timid, insignificant, and obsequious-looking pock-pitted youth. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 246/1 He gives..the impression of presenting the essential vulgarity of certain of his themes with little of the obsequious bowing, scraping and hand-rubbing common to his dressed-up contemporaries. 1993 Poets & Writers Sept. 27/1 Most had been alienated by boastful, dishonest, obsequious, cloying and, occasionally, nonexistent letters. < as lemmas |
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