- present participle of toady.
toadying
Example Sentences
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And Abby Quinn is excellent as Natalie, mom’s campaign manager and toadying child.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
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 its toadying relationship to those films may ultimately be its undoing, in that it sits clawing at the trouser hem of some of those towering examples of modern film art.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2019
I should hope I detest toadying as much as you!
From A Houseful of Girls by Victor Prout
