Time-serving

a. Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of men in power.

n. An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of men in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.

Synonyms— Temporizing. — TIME-SERVING, TEMPORIZING. Both these words are applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself servilely to times and seasons. A time-server is rather active, and a temporizer, passive. One whose policy is time-serving 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.

Trimming and time-serving, which are but two words for the same thing, always produce confusion. South.

I pronounce thee a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both. Shak.