toadyism
Example Sentences
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But companies doing business there have been under its constant threat anyway, while the world increasingly recoils at their toadyism.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2021
It’s to be debased into toadyism, which probably explains the record-setting staff turnover of 34 percent, according to an analysis from the Brookings Institution.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2018
He charged that: -- "Disregard for the law, report padding, bribe taking, sycophancy and the encouragement of toadyism have had a deleterious effect on the moral atmosphere of the society."
From Time Magazine Archive
Since part of Porter Sargent's bread-&-butter depends on the goodwill of U. S. private educators, he might normally be expected to betray a certain amount of mild toadyism.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may not be pleasant for us to acknowledge to ourselves that our countrymen abroad are cankered with toadyism and are frightful snobs; but so it is, nevertheless.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
