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
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 its toadying relationship to those films may ultimately be its undoing, in that it sits clawing at the trouser hem of some of those towering examples of modern film art.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2019
Goodell’s toadying may gratify individual owners, but it has undermined their collective trust.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2016
Paul had a perfect horror of money-loving, of soft and toadying habits, of the worship of style and society, and nonsense of high life generally.
From The High Calling by Charles Monroe Sheldon
