timeserver
noun
a person who shapes their conduct to conform to the opinions of the time or of persons in power, especially for selfish ends.
timeserving
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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
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
The next biographer we open accuses him of being too calculating, cunning, timeserving; and so forth.
From Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley
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 Theodore Roosevelt
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
