One who advances by obsequiousness might be called a " suck-up ", or, more colorfully, a " brown-noser " ( must I explain why ? ).
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_Hamilton signed off with the splendid obsequiousness that infuses the Renaissance spirit : " Kristina and I hugely enjoyed the opportunity to visit and recreate with you and Hillary in Hilton Head.
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An army of help _ waiter, maitre d', sommelier, busboy, water-glass filler _ takes turns at your elbow, giving you your money's worth of obsequiousness.
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An army of help _ waiter, maitre d', sommelier, busboy, water-glass filler _ takes turns at your elbow, giving you your money's worth of obsequiousness.
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With their usual obsequiousness, western as well as Arab leaders have been praising the King for returning to Jordan Jan . 19 to fire his brother Hassan and create his eldest son crown prince.
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Yet, to personally indulge himself, in the servile obsequiousness of the much older man; who is spending all his free time with a woman who is young enough to be his granddaughter.
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It was true that Bush too quickly made up with Beijing, verged on obsequiousness in doing it and was secretive about it when openness might have kept his administration from the excesses of its Chinese embrace.
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"Deceitful grandstanding, " the English language daily Jakarta Post called it, in what seemed a giddy break with the obsequiousness that had been required during Suharto's 32-year rule.
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David Patrick Kelly is saddled with a one-joke part, a fawning tenant farmer forever in the scholar's debt, and the laughs about his obsequiousness run out long before the play does.
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No superstitious fear of divine powers nor with man any courting of the public or obsequiousness or cultivation of popular favour, but temperance in all things and firmness; nowhere want of taste or search for novelty.
