toady

But what Raisi lacked in charisma, he more than made up for in subservience; the man, frankly, was a toady doing the supreme leader’s bidding.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

But Alice’s complaints aren’t just about her million sitting in the bank and the toady outgrowths of fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

Cruella, meanwhile, is never truly pitted against anyone more honorable than a sneering toady.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2021

Unless you are a slavish toady, such personalities will eventually see you as an enemy.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2019

If he had to play toady, he would own the part today.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

The heads of those places have been fired or have stepped down, sometimes replaced by crypto industry toadies.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

So how will the "usual suspects", the "softies", the "newbies" and the "toadies" shake down?

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025

But for his toadies, the stance is awkward, to say the least.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2024

Hunter’s generosity as a performer — listening intently, never grandstanding — spills over into her interpretation, giving us a Timon who chooses to think the best of her toadies.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2020

In fact, Rose and Violet McDougall were installed as toadies in ordinary to Castalia.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

He toadied to his superiors, fought with his peers, and would never give credit to his juniors when he could claim it for himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

To keep Uganda economically afloat, Amin has toadied to oil-rich Arab states in return for financial aid; this could explain his fanatical anti-Israeli policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Edouard gave Edouard a leg up into the Chamber of Deputies in 1919, and fora time Edouard toadied to Edouard in return.

From Time Magazine Archive

We toadied shamefully to the owner of Bull’s Eye Joe, who, we understood, had been the sole protection of a frontier state. 

From Books and Bookmen by Maclaren, Ian

It was made up of lesser lights of like tastes and ambitions, who toadied to and imitated the tyrant simply to avoid the unpleasant necessities which the alternative involved.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various

And Abby Quinn is excellent as Natalie, mom’s campaign manager and toadying child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

But his comments during his interview with Hannity suggest that the toadying and servility Pence engaged in nearly every day as Trump’s vice president are difficult to shake.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2021

Forgive us, O Premeer League, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2020

Benchley shared screenwriting credit with Carl Gottlieb, who also plays the toadying publisher of the Amity newspaper.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2020

I should hope I detest toadying as much as you!

From A Houseful of Girls by Prout, Victor