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