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
"Me and Sam's goin' on 'Midnight Pass' ter-night, ain't we, Sam?" inquired a young "timeserving" fellow.
From "Contemptible", by "Casualty" by
Hypocrisy and timeserving above are accompanied by hypocrisy and timeserving below.
From Character by Samuel Smiles
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
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
