Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Timeserving

Timeserving , adjective

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

Timeserving , noun

An 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.
Trimming and timeserving, which are but two words for the same thing,... produce confusion. — South
[I] pronounce thee... a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both. — Shakespeare