10 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
adjective attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
adjective attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
originFrom Middle English obsequyous, from Latin obsequiōsus (“complaisant, obsequious”), from obsequium (“compliance”), from obsequor (“comply with, yield to”), from ob (“in the direction of, towards”) + sequor (“follow”) (cf. sequel).
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