Timeserving
Time·serv·ing
Timeserving
a.
- Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
Timeserving
n.
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An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.
Trimming and timeserving, which are but two words for the same thing, . . . produce confusion.
[I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both.