obsequious
About 0.29 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
- adjective Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
- adjective Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
Similar words
bootlicking sycophantic toadyish fawning servile insincere subservient obsequent courtly servious
Often followed by
to and in as manner servants servant smile courtiers
Word family
obsequiously obsequiousness obsequiousnesses
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