toady to
Example Sentences
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When I asked Graham whether he ever worried about being seen as a toady to Trump, his voice assumed a slightly clipped edge.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2019
"Do I look like a toady to you?" he says with a grin.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2013
Far from being robust and uninhibited, he wrote, the press was often a toady to government and business.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2011
Feodor's mission is psychological tug-of-warfare with Mikhail Gorin, an old and honored writer who godfathered the revolution back in Czarist days, but refuses to toady to Stalin.
From Time Magazine Archive
This Mr. O’Rapley is a worthy man who knows a great deal, and although a bit of a toady to his superiors, expresses his opinions pretty freely behind their backs.”
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Harris, Richard
