Timeserver

I suspect your label “Vichy policeman” is code for “timeserver”. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

It would be unfair to say that Göran Kummel is a conscious timeserver. ❋ David McDuff (2009)

Everyone knows Powell for what he is: a pothunting timeserver. ❋ Unknown (2008)

By the very high and the very low, — by those rather who regarded ritualism as being either heavenly or devilish, — he was looked upon as a timeserver, because he would not put to sea in either of those boats. ❋ Unknown (2004)

All premised on the the entirely lunatic notion that the removal of just one more high profile timeserver will somehow usher in the reign of the Godly in the Commonwealth. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In "Prince of Darkness," Powers introduces us to the inner life of Father Ernest Burner, an entirely mediocre timeserver, a glutton, a cynic, adolescent in his desire to be on the opposite side of whatever position is taken by the younger curate. ❋ Gordon, Mary (1982)

Seth Ward taught mathematics, already noted as an astronomer, and hereafter to be less honourably noted as so supple a timeserver, that, “amid all the changes of the times he never broke his bones.” ❋ Unknown (1965)

Cassiodorus may seem a timeserver, but his tenacity was based on a constructive, optimistic view of Ostrogothic rule. ❋ Robert Brentano (1964)

There, in spite of eloquence and fervor and devotion, in spite of all his past vows and his hopes, he had decided to take the place and part of a timeserver; -- for he feared disgrace and pain, and the hissing and scoff and persecution, more than he feared the blasting anger of insulted and forsaken Truth. ❋ Various (N/A)

He scorned the ways of the demagogue and the timeserver, and believed that "men should be what they seem." ❋ Various (N/A)

In such a place you may find the Select Men as vulgar and unclean as are some of the more pretentious politicians of State or nation; the variety-store sands its sugar quite up to the city-standard; and the parson is as timid a timeserver as the Bishop of Babylon. ❋ Various (N/A)

If he was a timeserver and leagued with my Lord Warwick's faction in the Company, he was a jovial sinner. ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

It would be unjust to think of Hilary as a timeserver, but we must admit that there is something almost too businesslike in this dismission from his mind of former hopes and friendships. ❋ Unknown (1898)

He scorned the ways of the demagogue and the timeserver, and believed that “men should be what they seem.” ❋ Various (1892)

An ambitious timeserver like Loménie, or a contented adherent of use and wont like Morellet, might well regard such considerations as the products of a weak and eccentric scrupulosity. ❋ John Morley (1880)

The world which offers gifts and tacitly undertakes to ask no questions as to the real state of the timeserver's inner mind, loses no less than the timeserver himself who receives the gifts and promises to hold his peace. ❋ John Morley (1880)

_Miss Letitia Blandish_, sister of the above, a fawning timeserver, who sponges on the wealthy. ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)

By the very high and the very low, -- by those rather who regarded ritualism as being either heavenly or devilish, -- he was looked upon as a timeserver, because he would not put to sea in either of those boats. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

None but an Episcopalian could sit in the Scottish Parliament, or could even vote for a member, and in Scotland an Episcopalian was always a Tory or a timeserver. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

Saintly in his professions, unscrupulous in his dealings, zealous for nothing, bold in speculation, a coward and a timeserver in action, a placable enemy and a lukewarm friend, he was in every way qualified to arrange the terms of the coalition between the religious and the worldly enemies of Popery. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

Ben is such a [timeserver]; always agreeing with the managers opinion of whatever new policy the management rolls out. God, [Stefan] is so annoying always [nodding] his head and saying "Great idea" no matter what comes out of the managers mouth....He is such a timeserver. ❋ Koshell (2018)