timeserver
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The problem is bucked to Carlton-Browne of Miscellaneous Territories, a timeserver whose troutlike face mirrors his intelligence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Daring Author C�line makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many Catholic observers, nonetheless, believe Cardinal Innitzer is no timeserver but a sincere, bewildered wrong-guesser who believed that Catholicism could honestly come to terms with Hitlerism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss Letitia Blandish, sister of the above, a fawning timeserver, who sponges on the wealthy.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
If he was a timeserver and leagued with my Lord Warwick's faction in the Company, he was a jovial sinner.
From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary
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