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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

Can you bring one or the other of us around so that he doesn’t feel like a toady but I don’t continue to feel taken advantage of?

From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2016

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

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2011

Matthew Wood, after baiting John with fierce questions that threw the young student into confusion, had scornfully labeled him a “young toady with no mind of his own.”

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Like the most treacherous toadies from literature — Iago, Wormtongue, Tywin Lannister — Miller managed to shove aside rivals to latch onto his master’s ear and guide him toward more evil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

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

She may have a narcissistic ruthlessness, but she’s also indecisive and weak, desperate for love, easily manipulated by manifold toadies.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

Then the neglected poets and their toadies the critics grow sarcastic about this and think that they have condemned women for materialism when they are themselves blind to its grandeur.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh

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

Dick had never liked him; no one else did for that matter, though many people toadied to Mr. Graylock simply because he was reputed to be one of the richest merchants in Riverview.

From Dick the Bank Boy Or, A Missing Fortune by Frank V. Webster

And so he toadied Adam's wife    There, in the dew.

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier

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

More than social class, however, St. John’s has long symbolized a kind of old-Washington civility that represents either dignity or toadying, depending on your view.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2020

It is true he would quake at times in the majestic company of the heroes of the Sixth Form, but without hanging his head or toadying.

From The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch by Talbot Baines Reed