obsequious
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /əbˈsiːkwi.əs/
obsequious
- (archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
- Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
- 1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, p. 20
- Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.
- 1927, Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, p. 20
- (obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2
- […] the survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow […]
- […] the survivor bound
- Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, Scene 2
- Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
Th’ untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.
- Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament
- Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2
- (obedient) See also Thesaurus:obedient
- (fawning or subservient) fawning, ingratiating, servile, slavish, sycophantic, truckling, smarmy asskissing ; see also Thesaurus:sycophantic
- French: obéissant, obséquieux
- German: unterwürfig, folgsam, gehorsam
- Portuguese: obsequioso
- Russian: послу́шный
- Spanish: servil, apatronado, obsequioso
- French: obséquieux, soumis
- German: unterwürfig, hörig, servil, kriecherisch, devot
- Portuguese: obsequioso, submisso
- Russian: подобостра́стный
- Spanish: sumiso, obsequioso
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