Words and phrases that have a meaning related to obsequious: (124 results)
Often used in the same context:
sycophantic, pompous, supercilious, servile, unctuous, smarmy, solicitous, haughty, bumptious, pusillanimous, disdainful, groveling, unquestioning, contemptuous, sanctimonious, ingratiating, weaselly, credulous, condescending, impertinent, deferential, venal, doltish, truculent, mendacious, snappish, timorous, cretinous, prissy, maladroit, oleaginous, priggish, pliant, smug, feckless, humorless, brusk, complaisant, mealymouthed, arrogant, acquiescent, dutiful, officious, spineless, uncouth, shameless, contemptible, eager beaver, tactless, boorish, fatuous, uncritical, buffoonish, vainglorious, duplicitous, waspish, glib, avuncular, unstatesmanlike, snide, gormless, unassertive, captious, voluble, adulatory, foppish, garrulous, oafish, censorious, clubbable, blustering, saintly, querulous, chinless, rebarbative, scornful, egotistical, sneery, avaricious, dimwitted, reproachful, snooty, ungracious, insolent, bumbling, loathsome, genial, brusque, schoolmarmish, unprincipled, unappreciative, graceless, obstreperous, thickheaded, ungentlemanly, platitudinous, chauvinistic, effete, worshipful, disobliging, callow, orotund, respectful, courteous, submissive, affable, reverential, obliging, subservient, ceremonious, effacing, decorous, reverent
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adulate, climber, coaxing, obsequiously, servilely, social climber, subserviently
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Also try:bootlicking, fawning, insincere, toadyish
— Nouns for obsequious: manner, servant, smile, servants, deference, bow, courtiers, flattery, parliament, man, senate, more...
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