obsequiousness

noun

Definition of obsequiousnessnext
as in servility

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  1. subservience
  2. complaisance
  3. deference
  4. acquiescence
Noun
  • The role allowed Rossellini to embody subservience and authority through a reserved yet respectful demeanor.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Defeated and afraid, the leadership in Helsinki settled into a long period of uncritical neutrality toward, if not subservience to, the Kremlin.
    Jussi M. Hanhimäki, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2024
Definition of subservience
Noun
  • Yet electing to be private doesn’t amount to complaisance or complicity.
    Lesley M.M. Blume, Town & Country, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Sammy’s awareness of his mother’s infidelity, his father’s complaisance, and how both were relieved by his creative Boy Scout merit-badge projects and fantasies requires a separate article.
    Armond White, National Review, 16 Nov. 2022
Definition of complaisance
Noun
  • In an interview on CNN, Baron also questioned the idea that the decision was in deference to readers making up their own minds, noting that the Post has continued to endorse in state and local races.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • At first, fries were not going to be on the menu, in deference to Al Cassell’s no-fries policy.
    Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of deference
Noun
  • Republican Dwight Eisenhower’s election in 1952 resulted in GOP acquiescence in the New Deal’s expansion of federal authority.
    Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Even now, after more than two and a half years of fighting, most polling shows Russians generally displaying support, or at least acquiescence, to the war, although some dents appear to be showing.
    Peter Pomerantsev, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of acquiescence
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