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timeserving n. 无操守,趋炎附势 无操守,趋炎附势 timeserving adj 1: taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit [ synonym: { opportunist}, { opportunistic}, { timeserving}] Timeserving \ Time" serv` ing\, a. Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power. [ 1913 Webster]
Timeserving \ Time" serv` ing\, 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. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Temporizing. Usage: { Timeserving}, { Temporizing}. Both these words are applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself servilely to times and seasons. A timeserver is rather active, and a temporizer, passive. One whose policy is timeserving comes forward to act upon principles or opinions which may promote his advancement; one who is temporizing yields to the current of public sentiment or prejudice, and shrinks from a course of action which might injure him with others. The former is dishonest; the latter is weak; and both are contemptible. [ 1913 Webster] Trimming and timeserving, which are but two words for the same thing, . . . produce confusion. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] [ I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
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