Crossword-Solution: OBSEQUIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Obsequious | a. | Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted. |
| Obsequious | a. | Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite. |
| Obsequious | a. | Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “OBSEQUIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Deferential behavior | 1 answer |
| Obedient to an excessive degree | 1 answer |
| Overly compliant | 3 answers |
| toadying | 11 answers |
| ingratiating | 14 answers |
| sycophantic | 19 answers |
| adulatory | 25 answers |
| Servile | 27 answers |
| flattering | 28 answers |
| Oily | 44 answers |
| COURTLY ___ | 54 answers |
| compliant | 61 answers |
| Fawning | 63 answers |
| Deferential | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OBSEQUIOUS (5)
She heard me thus, and though divinely brought, Yet Innocence and Virgin Modestie, Her vertue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo’d, and not unsought be won, Not obvious, not obtrusive, but retir’d, The more desirable, or to say all, Nature her self, though pure of sinful thought, Wrought in her so, that seeing me, she turn’d; I follow’d her, she what was Honour knew, And with obsequious Majestie approv’d My pleaded reason.
House slave were usually better off than field hands, but, because they lived in such proximity to their masters, they were much quicker to adopt the master's values and tended to be more obsequious.
When he was magnificently weary of walking down that particular passage he would wheel round and pace back past the office; in the shadow of the arch just beyond he was altered as by a blast of magic, and went hurrying forward again among the Twelve Fishermen, an obsequious attendant.
Giovanelli is the right one?” The gentleman with the nosegay in his bosom had now perceived our two friends, and was approaching the young girl with obsequious rapidity.
Westgate, who had made on former occasions the most agreeable impression at this establishment, received an obsequious greeting.
Quotes with OBSEQUIOUS (3)
Take this message to your people, you obsequious little worm,” I murmured. “Anyone who lays a hand on Jordan Amador will have to answer to me. Now do me a favor and go to hell.” I removed my sword from his hand and then decapitated him. His severed head tumbled across the floor like a wayward bowling ball. Good riddance. I set my sword aside, found a stool in the corner, and climbed up in front of Jordan. Her handcuffs were attached to a huge meat hook bolted into the ceiling…
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
He was as obsequious as a Japanese ivy plant. Wringing his hands as if he hoped to squeeze the milk of human kindness from his fingernails, ...
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1974–2021).