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Obsequiousness is the name of that too-eager wish to please powerful people. It is a noun, so you can talk about someone’s obsequiousness, or the obsequiousness of a whole court. It is never praise. Formal writing likes this word; everyday English might say sucking up instead.
諂媚、巴結的態度
組成obsequious + -ness (makes a noun: “the quality of”). From Middle English obsequyousnesse.
同家族的字
- obsequiousthe adjective this noun comes from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
obsequiousnessnoun
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The quality of being obsequious; servile compliance.
- The crusty portier and the crusty clerks gave us the surly reception which their kind deal out in prosperous times, but by mollifying them with an extra display of obsequiousness and servility we finally got them to show us to the room which our boy had engaged for us.
- The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。