Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the character of a toady; given to toadyism; toad-eating; boot-licking.
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- adjective
Sycophantic ;fawning .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective attempting to win favor by flattery
- adjective attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
Etymologies
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Examples
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Does this reflect some covert biases he might know about at NPR, or just a fund-raiser's toadyish attempt to pull in $5 million?
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'I hardly think,' ... the Minister muttered to himself, practising the toadyish sneer for which he was justly loathed by all right thinking people, and adored by conference delegates ...
Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991
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As the military surges into Afghanistan and Pakistan and Xe Services LLC (formerly known as Blackwater) and the CIA eke into Pakistan and Yemen, the appetites of toadyish liberal analysts demand their daily diet of Republican bogeys.
legitgov 2010
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A pilot episode shows a toadyish Palestinian officer watching as a Jewish character machine-guns a group of West Bank children to death and drinks their blood.
NY Post: News 2010
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A pilot episode shows a toadyish Palestinian officer watching as a Jewish character machine-guns a group of West Bank children to death and drinks their blood.
NY Post: News 2010
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Total grovelling obeisance to Israel is a speciality, with much contempt for the Palestinians and support for Israel as they eviscerated Gazan children, and a manic scheme of extreme toadyish inventiveness, to attempt to arraign Ahmadinejad before the ICC for 'incitement to genocide' over his non-existent calls to 'wipe Israel off the map'.
Dissident Voice 2009
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