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It grew fat and lazy, today harbors many timeserving officeholders, not a few black-marketeers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether this charge was true or not, at any rate he wrote a letter to a friend, a Madrid editor visiting Havana, in which he characterized McKinley as a vacillating and timeserving politician.

From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Fish, Carl Russell

I promised to explain this to you, as Ernest was distressed lest he should appear to be timeserving, and I said I was sure you would understand it.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 by Benson, Arthur Christopher

"Me and Sam's goin' on 'Midnight Pass' ter-night, ain't we, Sam?" inquired a young "timeserving" fellow.

From "Contemptible", by "Casualty" by

Thusnelda, however, sympathized far more with the heroic spirit of her lover than with the timeserving policy of her father.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)