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
"Holmes will make trouble for any one who doesn't toady to him," thought Captain Cartwright moodily.
From Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
