toady
IPA: tˈoʊdi
noun
- A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
- (archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
verb
- (intransitive, construed with to) To behave like a toady (toward someone).
- (transitive) To behave like a toady toward (someone).
adjective
- toadlike
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Examples of "toady" in Sentences
- You are a perfect example of an illiterate 'toady'!
- That quote doesn’t work if the person delivering the message is a toady from the opposition.
- Apparently Brian Kilmeade, the toady, is taking the words of Roger Ailes to heart and wants to secure his job.
- I is teh pryvayte doody nurse aka toady and slave fer Teh Dawter, who is having teh yooyooal post-surgery paynes.
- This tendency had earned for her the reputation of "toady" by those who did not understand her, or were inclined to judge from the surface.
- Harshman ...) within crown-Bufonidae, and outside the enormous clade that includes all of the more familiar, more, err, 'toady'-looking toads.
- And this kind of toady has an exquisite _flair_ for your greatness and dignity the moment he becomes quite sure of your pecuniary willingness to back both.
- The former may give practical recognition of entire equality, to the best of his ability, but it will avail nothing, for the latter will not "toady" to his friend, nor be "patronized" by him.
- I am writing of events which took place years ago, but I have seen no reason to change the opinion then formed, that Mr. Parasyte, the principal, was a "toady" of the first water; that he was a narrow-minded, partial man, in whom the principle of justice had never been developed.
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