| 单词 | timeserver |
| 例句 | I'm talking, of course, about the assorted villains and hapless timeservers in Armando Iannucci's satirical TV show The Thick of It. Out of The Thick of It: has the humour left British politics? 2011-02-18T17:08:42Z Or, resenting managements that exploit them but don’t reward them, they resolve to join the legion of timeservers and clock-watchers. Column: 'Quiet quitting' is just a new name for an old reality 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z But the adults are gone, and their replacements are mainly sycophants and timeservers who are happy to tell Trump that 2+2=22. Opinion | Yes, Trump is losing it. But don’t pretend he ever had it to begin with. 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Then, I wot the renegade Oswald, and sycophants and timeservers generally, will thrive. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z He was warned by friends, and at last officially told that he could not be retained in the department if he persisted in stigmatizing its chief as a fool, a timeserver, no matter what. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Because there are some timeservers and worldlings among the clergy, shall we join in denunciation of priests and churches everywhere? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 But, said old Maisie to herself, all this was sheer hypocrisy; a mere timeserver's assumption of civility towards a plaguy old cat! When Ghost Meets Ghost He scorned the ways of the demagogue and the timeserver, and believed that "men should be what they seem." Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session If ever there was one, he was a timeserver. The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) It will be a mistake if he shall allow the provocations offered him by insincere timeservers to drive him from the house of his own building. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 1: Abraham Lincoln Miss Letitia Blandish, sister of the above, a fawning timeserver, who sponges on the wealthy. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Timid timeservers will urge a submission which promises peace, though it be but a solitude that is called so. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 He is one whom all the courtiers avoid to-night—miserable timeservers as they are—for he has fallen into disgrace with your father and the king. Prince Eugene and His Times If he was a timeserver and leagued with my Lord Warwick's faction in the Company, he was a jovial sinner. To Have and to Hold On the other hand, the Scotchmen of that generation who made a figure in the Parliament House and in the Council Chamber were the most dishonest and unblushing timeservers that the world has ever seen. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 None but an Episcopalian could sit in the Scottish Parliament, or could even vote for a member, and in Scotland an Episcopalian was always a Tory or a timeserver. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 |
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