timeserving
Characterized by an obsequious or too ready compliance with the times, and especially with the will or humors of those in authority; obsequious; truckling.
nounAn acting conformably to times and seasons; now, usually, an obsequious compliance with the humors of men in power, which implies a surrender of one’s independence, and sometimes of one’s integrity.
adjectiveObsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
nounAn 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.
nounA variant of
taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit