"Me and Sam's goin 'on' Midnight Pass 'ter-night, ain't we, Sam?" inquired a young "timeserving" fellow. From Wordnik.com. ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference
The antecedents of its principal members are those of timeserving politicians. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
A melancholy and monitory lesson this, to all timeserving and temporising statesmen!. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Political correctness is vast featherbedding trades union of pygmies, runts, and dullards, devoted to timeserving until their pension kicks in. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
While religious freedom had been secured, philosophy had become timid, official, and timeserving; retentive as FONTENELLE of the truths within its grasp, and fearful to give utterance to aught that might disturb the stillness of the temple, the lecture-room, or fashionable auditory. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
Hypocrisy and timeserving above are accompanied by hypocrisy and timeserving below. From Wordnik.com. [Character] Reference
Do you think he is doing any better than the 19 of his timeserving, unaccountable colleagues?. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The alternative is that they're inept timeserving mediocrities too dullwitted even to know they're going over the falls. From Wordnik.com. [Soccer Dad] Reference
I think Hackney needs an MP (and a Council) who is independent from this corrupt lot of timeserving right-wingers, rather than one who votes for. From Wordnik.com. [I Intend To Escape ......................And Come Back] Reference
Whether this charge was true or not, at any rate he wrote a letter to a friend, a Madrid editor visiting Havana, in which he characterized McKinley as a vacillating and timeserving politician. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power] Reference
And this result was largely owing to the difference in the teachers, -- Fénelon, the gentle, but firm, patient, painstaking conscientious man; Seneca, the more brilliant, but vacillating and timeserving sycophant. From Wordnik.com. [History of Education] Reference
He is, by the general voice of the village, a timeserving, unfeeling, selfish man; cringing, and mean to his superiors; insolent and fawning, by turns, to his equals; and at all times oppressive and overbearing to his inferiors. From Wordnik.com. [The Offspring of Fancy] Reference
But to do this you must have paid delegates from your own class, not timeserving unpaid representatives from the classes which rob you; you must put your servants, not your masters, at Westminster; you must have a National Convention of the People, not a House of the. From Wordnik.com. [British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals] Reference
“timeserving” of the Olema, a favourite theme, like. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
A fact which illustrates the sagacity of Kolory, or else the timeserving disposition of this hardly used deity. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a four months' residence among the natives of a valley of the Marquesas Islands, or, A peep at Polynesian life] Reference
1798, Simcoe had left the province never to return, and while the government was being administered by the timeserving Peter. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
In short, I know nothing, and begin to fancy that you, like some others, think me a lukewarm and timeserving aristocrat, after I have ventured more than many, because I had more to venture. ". From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
Any old timeserving hack could do that. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Malcontents] Reference
It has not been my intention, to write the history of it: this noble task is above my powers: I have only attempted, to place Napoleon on the stage of action, and oppose his words, his deeds, and the truth, to the erroneous assertions of certain historians, the falsehoods of the spirit of party, and the insults of those timeserving writers, who are accustomed to insult in misfortune those, to whom they have subsequently paid court. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I] Reference
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