toadies

Example Sentences

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The heads of those places have been fired or have stepped down, sometimes replaced by crypto industry toadies.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2025

So how will the "usual suspects", the "softies", the "newbies" and the "toadies" shake down?

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025

But for his toadies, the stance is awkward, to say the least.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024

Rather, it's because the show gives us some answer as to how the terrible corporate and political toadies in those congressional hot seats became the awful people that they are.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2019

For Whately's so-called impartiality consisted in being equally biassed against Evangelicals and Tractarians; and both were accused by their unfriends of being a little addicted to the encouragement of flatterers and toadies.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George