timeserving
- a word derived from timeserver.
Example Sentences
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It grew fat and lazy, today harbors many timeserving officeholders, not a few black-marketeers.
From Time Magazine Archive
We have learned to distrust the responses of their timeserving oracles, and to laugh at the ignorant pretensions of their literary artisans.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
The treaty was rejected by an overwhelming vote, although Buchanan led a few of his timeserving comrades from the North to the support of the extreme Southern element.
From Thomas Hart Benton by Roosevelt, Theodore
The next biographer we open accuses him of being too calculating, cunning, timeserving; and so forth.
From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Kingsley, Charles
A melancholy and monitory lesson this, to all timeserving and temporising statesmen!
From The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society
