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How to use obsequious in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word obsequious? Here are some examples.

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Thus approached, I would smile benignly and direct the appropriately obsequious customer toward the objects of his desiring.
Diamond has a gentle, self-effacing style about him without seeming obsequious.
Randy is Mr. Lahey's obsequious sidekick, lover and Sunnyvale's assistant trailer park supervisor.
Submission here means to be subsequent or responsive, not necessarily obsequious or subservient.
It wasn't so much obsequious as deferent, something that was most unusual in a politician.
And in Congress politics, fulsome flattery and obsequious loyalty play a vital role.
Paris himself turns out to be an obsequious toady in Domitian's heady presence.
As is always the case in France, I am not sure if she reads my apology as sufficiently humble or merely obsequious.
They're surrounded by heavy linen, sparkling crystal, gleaming silver, obsequious waiters, and an embarrassment of champagne glasses.
They've filled their almost-claustrophobic room with towering flower bouquets and perhaps a few too many obsequious waiters.
They are curiously obsequious, seeming to promise presidents and prime ministers a favourable verdict in return for a few invitations, a few decorations.
In fact, the figure lounging in front of me seems in some respects more human than fox, effortlessly graceful, endearing without being obsequious, and persistently humorous.
Self-respect did not prevent them from asking the prime minister obsequious questions which had been written for them by Whips.
Her insatiable desire to be stroked, bolstered, flattered, was met by Burrell with the obsequious enthusiasm of a knight offering the chasteness of courtly love.
Still, for the last year the media has been treating the Abe regime with obsequious deference.
The old couple that owned it were nauseatingly obsequious, in stark contrast to the indifferent attitude people in the City had towards each other.
He was obedient to his Christchurch bosses, but not at all obsequious.
Everyone was desperately failing to be cool about the presence of this A list Hollywood actor, but the first few questions were obsequious and embarrassing.
Like spoiled children, they can demand, stamp their feet, refuse to vote, be fickle and whimsical, expecting MPs to act as obsequious valets, while distrusting them all along.
Bent upon repairing her first unlucky speech by the most obsequious civility and unoffendable good-humour, she began with a benignant smile, though her blood was running cold all the while.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Then, heralded by an obsequious guard, came a great man, proconsular in mien and gait.
The financier returned to his stately office and passed through his obsequious rows of clerks to his inner sanctum.
Both little shrill voices were obsequious with the information that he had gone towards the leat.
Since other gentlemen are not more obsequious in gallantry, I hereby tender myself for honour of accompanyist and vade mecum.
That ecstatically happy woman, with Carmen and the obsequious young Duke of altern, appeared behind him in the flood of light.
To camote ran over to the spot, with the most obsequious of hotelkeepers' smiles on his lips.
But Bill knew Barber Sam and he had presence of mind enough to couch his expostulatory reply in the most obsequious terms.
It took a Tudor will to do the deed, and it took an obsequious Tudor age to accept it.
Selim was most obsequious, and seemed ready to do everything for my comfort.
Who knows, thought I, but I owe all this obsequious deference to my horse?
The landlord, obsequious and frightened, waited on the party himself.
They were obsequious and servile and did not presume to talk to their masters as if they were their equals.
In a carriage once more, bustling about from milliner to linen-draper, escorted back to the carriage by obsequious shopmen or polite owners, Mrs.
He was compared by obsequious flatterers to the Black Prince, to Alcibiades, to the young Caesar.
Expect random violence, obsequious toadying and down right rudeness while you try to enjoy a three-course meal without choking with laughter.
He dropped her hand at the obsequious voice of the waiter at his elbow.
The bland, obsequious, well-informed Ramsay became a great favourite.
I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff was afflicted, or blessed, with something of his own obsequious suavity.
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