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Definition of Timeserving
1. Adjective. Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit.
Similar to: Expedient
Derivative terms: Opportunist, Opportunism
Definition of Timeserving
1. a. Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
2. n. 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.
Definition of Timeserving
1. Noun. A variant of '''time-serving'''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Timeserving
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timeserving
Literary usage of Timeserving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonyms Explained: With Copious Illustrations and Examples, Drawn by George Crabb (1844)
"866 TIMES PAST— formerly, in former times, times past or days of yore, anciently
or in ancient times ...................................... 369 timeserving ..."
2. The Life of Laurence Sterne by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1864)
"... when " a little reverend timeserving P.—st" threatened to demolish their
church; and make them build a new one—which clearly points to Dr. Sterne. ..."
3. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1826)
"timeserving ... timeserving and TEMPORIZING, are both applied to the conduct of
one who adapts himself ..."
4. What Japan Thinks by Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami (1921)
"The plea which the timeserving scholars put forth is that this is the age of
specialists; and that in the conduct of the affairs of the nation a scheme ..."
5. Character by Samuel Smiles (1876)
"The same moral cowardice extends downwards as well as upwards. The action and
reaction are equal. Hypocrisy and timeserving above are accompanied by ..."
6. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"timeserving and TEMPORIZING, are both applied to the conduct of one who adapts
himself servilely to the time and season ; but a ..."
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