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

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

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

But we soon weary of the continual reference to dinners and parasites, to the snobbery and indifference of the rich, to the tricks of toadyism on the part of needy client or legacy hunter.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth