EGAVE

obsequious

About 0.29 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
  2. adjective Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
  3. 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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