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Перевод: obsequious
[прилагательное] подобострастный; раболепный; угодливый
Тезаурус:
- Perhaps television was just too obsequious towards leaders to be revealing.
- If Freemantle portrayed Leapor as relatively docile, it must be said that the poet occasionally adopted obsequious postures herself.
- He had expected a butler or some obsequious manservant, at the least a maid or companion, to welcome them into a room shining with silver and silk carpets.
- They came hurrying forward with obsequious smiles as Wilcox stopped to ask about a bin of components with "WASTE" chalked on the side, or squatted beside a broken-down machine to discuss the cause with an oily-pawed mechanic.
- As Valre, Alex Hardy exhibits a Basil Fawlty brand of obsequious contempt for his master.
- (Gomez, it should be said, is the epitome of the "good negro": kind, considerate, unassuming but not obsequious, hardworking and able to make "jokes" about his colour.)
- It pulls up and rounds out the corners of its mouth, and chomps its teeth together rapidly in an obsequious manner, as if it is saying: "Don't hurt me, I'm only a baby!"
- The food there didn't taste too different and we were spared a cabaret but I reckon 30 isn't too high a price for eating in a beautiful, traditional-style Moroccan room with the well heeled jet set, being served by obsequious waiters in costumes that would put to shame Aladdin's chorus at the Palladium.
- The trouble is that, today, much of this appears appallingly naive and disgustingly obsequious.
- His "peculiar gloating obsequious humour", his "sort of capricious self-satisfaction" lurking in the very midst of "plaintive protestations", are described and pondered.
- C. H. Simpson, for 37 years the popular Master of Ceremonies at Vauxhall Gardens, celebrated for his extraordinarily obsequious manner.
- Clinton's pitch for the Jewish vote was more obsequious.
- "I went to see her at Claridge's they are always so obsequious when one asks for her.
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