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• s  attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
• s  attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner
  obsequious shop assistants

• The police show obsequious respect for the politicians in power and it will naive to believe they do not know which side the bread is buttered.
• The king had a rabid distaste for fawning courtiers and their obsequious show of respect.
• The West, having understood the reality of oil power, were overly obsequious when dealing with the oil sheiks.

• bootlicking
• fawning
• sycophantic
• toadyish

News & Articles

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• Rough Justice For Slain Foreign Fixers In China, Malaysia
  The rich and powerful in Asia often rely on foreign courtiers - fixers, consultants, brokers - to get things done overseas. Only the most discreet and obsequious need apply. The rewards are immense, given the undisclosed wealth that flows to such elites. So, too, are the risks when the relationship sours. I've covered the cases of two foreign fixers, one in China, the other in Malaysia, who paid ...
  Aug. 23, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Alexander Hamilton in Patriot Post
  1, Hamilton warned, "Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants."
• Bob Brown in Brisbane Times
  Is this not an obsequious decision by the Rudd government to back down to the first bit of pressure from Japan because it simply didn't like the bloody business of whaling and the pictures of it being released to the world public,Senator...
• Avigdor Lieberman in AFP
  National honour is an important value in the Middle East, and the time for obsequious attitudes is over. We have no need to adopt false pretences in a bid to please,Lieberman said.