How to Use obsequious in a Sentence

obsequious

adjective

• She's constantly followed by obsequious assistants who will do anything she tells them to.
• Those are the obsequious words the puppeteer has been waiting to hear.
  — Perri Klass, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• To cede all of that ground to the executive, and to do so in such an obsequious way, is shameful.
  — Ken Burns, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
• There are no hushed voices, white tablecloths or obsequious waiters.
  — Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• In the face of mass disrespect, such obsequious pandering goes a long way.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• They must be poised and respectful without coming off as obsequious suck-ups.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 18 Apr. 2017
• Also notable is the service, which is warm and discreet rather than obsequious.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2022
• In their wildest dreams, Big Oil could not have imagined a more obsequious servant.
  — Mark Warren, Esquire, 17 June 2010
• Then, of course, there were the obsequious lawyers and bankers who helped guard fortunes and reputations.
  — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 15 June 2022
• At the opening, politicians lined up to flatter the company in the most obsequious terms.
  — Sarah Leonard, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2021
• Dour versus obsequious The half-hour call started with pleasantries but quickly took a sharp detour.
  — Nancy Benac, The Denver Post, 30 Nov. 2019
• The crews also catch the obsequious obsequies of comrades in the street, filmed in every corner of the evil empire.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 9 May 2021
• And, even though the boy is unseen, the actor sure has nailed down the aggressively obsequious kind of intimacy with youth that has cost society so much.
  — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2024
• The majority of the comments were flattering to Bosworth, even obsequious.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2021
• Perhaps he has been misled by his obsequious reception in the Florida fever swamps into thinking that the whole country lives up his street.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• This gambit was a trap, even if the obsequious TV guy didn’t intend it that way, and Connally easily slipped it.
  — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 28 May 2017
• Plentiful staff are ever-present and always obliging, without being obsequious.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026
• The job called for a door-to-door salesman’s approach, requiring the nerfoo to adopt patronizing or outright obsequious poses.
  — Jeremy Miller, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• Brooks is Joel Cairo, the obsequious little fellow who follows in the wake of the wealthy Caspar Gutman.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Apr. 2012
• Trump's own vice president, Mike Pence, has been criticized for being too obsequious to the president.
  — Author: Seung Min Kim, Aaron Blake, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2019
• That may have been the biggest compliment that Obama, who's sinking fast into obsequious appeasement, has received in quite awhile.
  — Margaret Doris, Esquire, 30 June 2008
• Trump’s Cabinet meetings might as well be filmed in North Korea what with the obsequious pandering before one of them dares speak.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
• And would Pence, a man who had shown himself until this very day to be one of the most obsequious public officials in American history, have dared refuse?
  — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 6 Jan. 2021
• Trump’s dual acquittals have been seen as a product of the Republican Party’s obsequious fealty to him.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• The ever-loyal, ever-obsequious Pence needs to understand that with Trump, loyalty is strictly a one-way street – only to himself.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 7 July 2019
• At a Kremlin meeting over the weekend, Putin’s frustration at the Ukrainians for being less obsequious than Trump boiled over, sources said.
  — Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• As a friend — her friends all know that Bobbi was singular — ever thoughtful, never obsequious, sometimes obstinate, always honest.
  — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 6 July 2026
• Part of that is due to the city’s obsequious contract with the developer, which gives Hollywood Park 25 years — yes, 25 years — to get the work done.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• Most are evasive, a few are obsequious, many are defiant, a few are enraged, and all appear to feel their lives slipping away under the seemingly boundless force of judicial inquisition.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2026
• Media analysts said Hegseth was trying to replace independent observers with obsequious pro-Trump voices.
  — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026