Obsequious
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- Obedient, compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
- Excessively eager to please or to obey all instructions; fawning, subservient.
- 1927 — Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, p. 20
- Translation falls especially short of this conceit which carries the whole flamboyance of the Spanish language. It was intended as an obsequious flattery of the Condesa, and was untrue.
- 1927 — Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, p. 20
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