toady

But what Raisi lacked in charisma, he more than made up for in subservience; the man, frankly, was a toady doing the supreme leader’s bidding.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

But Alice’s complaints aren’t just about her million sitting in the bank and the toady outgrowths of fame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2021

Cruella, meanwhile, is never truly pitted against anyone more honorable than a sneering toady.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2021

To a long list of professional milestones, Barr is adding toady, minion and yes man.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2019

On a cane throne sat an old toady lady.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025

Because that statement on top of his refusal to bring back Kilmer Abrego Garcia has me truly scared of what he and his toadies will do.”

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025

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

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025

And today’s toadies, worshipers and opportunists may have some explaining to do to their descendants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

Gentlemen-commoners have a little better chance, though not much, and seem to me to be worse than the tufts, and to furnish most of their toadies.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes

To keep Uganda economically afloat, Amin has toadied to oil-rich Arab states in return for financial aid; this could explain his fanatical anti-Israeli policy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Edouard gave Edouard a leg up into the Chamber of Deputies in 1919, and fora time Edouard toadied to Edouard in return.

From Time Magazine Archive

He toadied to his superiors, fought with his peers, and would never give credit to his juniors when he could claim it for himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Grindley knew that he had a better intellect than Maxwell; and yet he allowed Maxwell to snub him, and he toadied Maxwell in return.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

However, Flashey was not unused to this sort of thing, and had lived through as awkward affairs before, and, as Diggs had said, fed and toadied himself back into favor again.

From Tom Brown at Rugby by Thomas Hughes

And Abby Quinn is excellent as Natalie, mom’s campaign manager and toadying child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

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 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

In their prosperity they encouraged toadying and sycophancy.

From Friendship by Hugh Black