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timeserver
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) Someone who honours their commitments only when it is personally easy to do so. (16th c.) 2 A person who conforms to current opinions, especially for reasons of personal advantage; an opportunist. (from 16th c.) 3 Someone ...
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n. one who conforms to current ways and opinions for personal advantage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Timeserver \Time"serv`er\, n. One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
Usage examples of timeserver.
If even a timeserver like McDermott is being this thorough, Kimmer is unlikely to succeed in hiding what she most wishes to.
He seems sincere, but he seemed just as sincere when he made me believe he was a timeserver with the FBI.
Old Oinash, for ensample, is but a doddery old timeserver awaiting his pension.
Zemanek the timeserver elbows his way back to the helm of unfolding events, Ludvik chooses to stay behind with Jaroslav, who is making his sad exit from history.
She would do more, far more, than any timeserver would have accomplished.
That Council is composed solely of timeservers, power-mad conquerors, and men with no moral standards whatsoever.
Are they all no more than cynical timeservers from the ones with soft voices at the top to the coarse oafs at the bottom?
Are we uncompromising, absolute, strong, or will we show ourselves to be timeservers, who compromise, trim and yield?