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

We're supposed to find Lloyd pathetic, a toady.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2011

On a cane throne sat an old toady lady.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

Because that statement on top of his refusal to bring back Kilmer Abrego Garcia has me truly scared of what he and his toadies will do.”

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025

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

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025

And today’s toadies, worshipers and opportunists may have some explaining to do to their descendants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

But if not Ted's toadies, then who could be wandering about up there?

From The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain by George A. Warren

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

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

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

I do not think that I ever toadied any one, or that I have acquired the character of a tuft-hunter.

From Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope

When his feet got well—I had toadied and babied him so—he was plum ruined.

From The Outlet by Andy Adams

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

I love the smell of toadying in the morning.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2021

It was answered in the sudden burst of Twitter toadying from Fox commentator Skip Bayless, who had inexcusably belittled Prescott for admitting to depression in the offseason.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 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

And yet people's love for Aunt Susan seems so genuine—not as though they were toadying to her for her money.

From How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl by Irene Elliott Benson