Definition of "obeisant" [o•bei•sant]

• Courteously deferential and respectful. (adjective)

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• "Corruption at the department head level, incompetence and obeisant servitude required in lower ranks of DOT and other agency employees."
• "Most alarming to the West was a coup in Czechoslovakia in early 1948 that replaced a government desperately seeking to retain ties with both East and West with a hard-core Communist regime obeisant to Moscow."
• "We must do what the Republicans tell us to do, it is that simple, and right now, our Republican overlords are whip cracking and barking the simple command, shred the Constitution, obeisant knaves."