[每日] sequacious (a) 順從的
Word of the Day (Sunday December 7, 2008)
sequacious \sih-KWAY-shuhs\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/1b5ax
1. proceeding smoothly and regularly
2. disposed to follow, especially slavishly
In a world peopled with limp critics and sequacious art
historians the ruthlessness with which he used the battering
ram of talent invariably earned my admiration and almost
invariably my support.
-- John Pope-Hennessy, Learning to Look
By which she did not mean a sequacious helpmeet to the Man of
the House, picking up his dirty underwear and serving him
Budweisers during commercials.
-- Bill Kauffman, The Way of Love, Whole Earth, July 2000
Reminds one of the liberal journalist who was shocked Richard
Nixon got elected because she didn't know anyone who had voted
for him. That's what you get when you surround yourself with
sequacious lefties.
-- Thomas Mitchell, Gore's new testament of liberal
gobbledygook, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 6/3/2007
by 1640, "given to following leaders," from Latin sequac-, stem
of sequax "that follows, a follower," from sequi "to follow"
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