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Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile. / (archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.

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obsequious

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Source Word

obsequious

IPA(Pronunciation)

/əbˈsiːkwi.əs/

Adjective

archaic obsolete

Japanese Meaning

過度に媚びへつらい、他人を喜ばせるために必要以上に従順または服従するさま。 / へつらいやこびへつらいが強く、相手に迎合しすぎる態度。 / （古風な意味で）他人の命令や願いに従順な、従順な性質を示すさま。

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Her obsequious manner made the other employees uncomfortable.

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彼女のこびへつらうような態度は他の従業員を不快にさせた。

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Sense（1）

Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.

Personally I felt shy and uncomfortable at this obsequious adoration, and I read the same feeling in the faces of Lord John and Summerlee, but Challenger expanded like a flower in the sun.

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Sense（2）

(archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.

Our ladies were situated as well as it was possible; they had good servants, splendid rooms, obsequious attendants, and had become habituated to the country, so that the loss of the Count was not any thing of moment beyond the pleasure of his society;[…]

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