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
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
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 Arthur Christopher Benson
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 Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
