ADJ-GRADED 奉承的;巴结的;谄媚的 If you describe someone as obsequious, you are criticizing them because they are too eager to help or agree with someone more important than them. 奉承的;巴结的;谄媚的 [disapproval]
Barrow was positively obsequious to me until he learnt that I too was the son of a labouring man.