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

Furthermore, rumbled old John L., Philip Murray was "innocuous, feeble and namby-pamby," and guilty of "cringing toadyism."

From Time Magazine Archive

I had, by my own folly, through toadyism in the first place and moral cowardice afterwards, placed myself in an embarrassing and ludicrous position; and I must take the consequences.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various