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

Forgive us, O Premeer League, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery.

From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 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

Riches and rich people were the commonest subject of his sneers, yet he lost no opportunity of toadying a profitable connection, and was always supposed to be on the look-out for some heiress.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various