timeserver
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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
The problem is bucked to Carlton-Browne of Miscellaneous Territories, a timeserver whose troutlike face mirrors his intelligence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
An ambitious timeserver like Loménie, or a contented adherent of use and wont like Morellet, might well regard such considerations as the products of a weak and eccentric scrupulosity.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by Morley, John
If ever there was one, he was a timeserver.
From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony
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