time-serving

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TI'ME-SERVING, adjective Obsequiously complying with the humors of men in power. TI'ME-SERVING, noun An obsequious compliance with the humors of men in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.
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