Obsequious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OBSEQUIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• servilely ingratiating; fawning
• obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
• Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
• Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
• Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
• attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
• attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

Words related to OBSEQUIOUS

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Words that contain OBSEQUIOUS

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How to use OBSEQUIOUS in a sentence

• King after king had passed in splendid, glittering pomp across her plains, circled by a crowd of obsequious courtiers, trampling on a nameless multitude of slaves.
• Babu Chandra Mohan Bai, or Chandra Babu, as he was usually called, was a rich banker with many obsequious customers.
• It was not an obsequious old woman she saw, but a sedate, dignified, elderly person, with her brows somewhat knitted.
• But they were none the less obsequious when the squire passed up the street.
• There was something almost obsequious in her manner to him.
• In fact it will not be pure intelligence at all, but rather a faculty that may be obsequious to all the lower passions.
• James failed in persuading even the obsequious Parliament to give protection to the Roman Catholics.
• They came with much pomp and following, asserting themselves and proceeding through paths made ready for them by the obsequious laboring classes.
• He naturally laid down his arms and surrendered, straightway becoming respectful and obsequious.
• De Marsay was escorted, with a care almost obsequious, along the dimly lit corridor, at the end of which he issued by a secret door into the garden of the Hotel San-Real.
• Gounsovski came to him, bowing, obsequious, his fat hands held out.
• Here and there the dwarfs murmured an obsequious greeting to Miellyn, and she made some lighthearted answer.
• What a most obsequious monster! With his mane he sweeps the floor, And before her humbly falling, Kisses her fair feet.
• The nervous, obsequious Hoopdriver, to whom I introduced you some days since, has undergone a wonderful change.
• He was personally obsequious, lent her recitations an attentive ear, and was ever ready with the expected commendation.
• And I would especially guard young ladies from fancying themselves like Lady Superiors, with an obsequious following of disciples, if they undertake any great work.
• Fortune is an obsequious jade, that favors the strong and turns her back upon the weak.
• But he encountered, in the mariner of the India-shawl, a very different man from the flattering and obsequious grocer who had just quitted him.
• She is hardly pretty, and stands in the obsequious attitude of an advocate.
• The landlady, a stout, obsequious woman, led them to a small dining-room above stairs lighted by many candles where an open fire was burning cheerfully.
• He at once deposed and outlawed Alexander, and declared Jean Danielovitch, of Moscow, to be grand prince, who promised the most obsequious obedience to his wishes.

Similar words containing OBSEQUIOU without suffix s

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