Can Someone Be Obsequious?
Obsequious People Are Usually Not Being Genuine; They Resort to Flattery and Other Fawning Ways to Stay in the Good Graces of Authority Figures. an Obsequious...
Obsequious people are usually not being genuine; they resort to flattery and other fawning ways to stay in the good graces of authority figures. An obsequious person can be called a bootlicker, a brownnoser or a toady.
What makes someone obsequious?
characterized by or showing servile obedience and excessive eagerness to please; deferential; fawning: an obsequious bow;obsequious servants. obedient; dutiful.
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Is obsequious a negative?
The word “obsequious” is used to describe someone who is almost pathetically eager to follow, obey, and serve. ... By the 1500s, however, the word had acquired its modern sense of being fawning and sycophantic, and it has decidedly negative connotations today.
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