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obsequious

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
obsequious /əbˈsiːkwɪəs/

▶adjective obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

– derivatives
obsequiously adverb,
obsequiousness noun.

– origin C15: from L. obsequiosus, from obsequium ‘compliance’, from obsequi ‘follow, comply with’.

'obsequious' also found in these Oxford entries:

bootlicker - brown-nose - chamcha - creeping Jesus - curry - lackey - lick - oleaginous - poodle - satellite - scrape - slaver - slimy - subservient - sucky

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