timeserving

& s. A. As adj .: Complying with the times; obsequiously complying with the ruling power. "In vain the time - serving bishops ranged themselves on the king's side."-Gardiner & Mullinger: Introd, to Eng. Hist . , ch. iii. B. As subst.: An acting conformably to times and seasons; usually an obsequious compliance with the humors of those in power, implying a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity. "If such, by trimming and time-serving, which are but two words for the same thing, abandon the Church of England, this will produce confusion."- South .