Example sentences for: obsequious

How can you use “obsequious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • An obsequious 1992 New York Times Magazine profile put it this way: "In the Governor's office, Weld has restored a tradition of aristocratic Yankee lordship, he has made governing look easy and WASP ascendancy seem an expression of natural law, if not of divine right."

  • The seconds crawl, and, as they do, you realize that the immobile, obsequious Eddie is infinitely more terrifying than any of the slobbering, muscle-flexing, knife-wielding psychopaths of Con Air . A Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster can't waste a beat simulating a real human exchange.

  • Search for obsequious references to Bill Gates.

  • Redgrave's portrayal of the queen of the Nile as an aging, cigarillo-smoking ditz, obsequious to Antony, is judged daffy but charming, except by New

  • In our staged "dialogue"--which was played out in semi-public, in front of a disturbingly obsequious audience of a hundred or so businessmen--Mahathir continued to sound a minor-key version of the conspiracy theme, insisting that capital controls were necessary to protect small countries against the evil designs of big speculators.


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