- 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
Forgive us, O Premeer League, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2020
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 you know well that a cringing, toadying manner, which would be thoroughly disgusting to a person of sense, may be extremely agreeable and delightful to a self-conceited idiot.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various
