How To Use Toady In A Sentence
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Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters.
Jamaica Information Service
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But the government's toadyish diplomacy, which overlooked the key issue affecting its relations with North Korea, led to a delay in resolving the abduction cases and resulted in tragic consequences.
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By toadying to the royal family of Crim Tartary, she was lady-in-waiting to the young Princess Angelica.
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He may have signed off on the idea of creating a youth brigade, and put a gold star in the dossier of the sweating toady who proposed the idea.
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It is enough that “my lud” has a handle to his name, and Murray Hill shoddyocracy will wine and dine and toady him, and perhaps for his title marry him to some sweet, pure and good American girl, whose life hereafter will be a purgatory to herself and a mutual misery to both.
Black and White
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He was a shameless toady to those above him and a vicious bully to those below him.
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The Beard Liberation Front is not doing itself, or its cause, any favours by toadying to those who lack the conviction to sprout a decent set of whiskers and grow the full monty.
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That quote doesn’t work if the person delivering the message is a toady from the opposition.
Think Progress » European-American Fox News host complains that we’re turning into Europeans, who are a ‘pack of Pagan losers.’
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The word toady comes from ‘toad-eater’: a quack's or mountebank's assistant who would eat, or pretend to eat, a toad so he could be cured by the medicine man.
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Others claimed that he had improperly mixed religion and politics and had served as a toady of Prime Minister José María Aznar.
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It's been a while since I bothered to capsulate him, but his column for the Sunday Times is worth it because it proves -- as if there was any doubt -- that he is such a sanctimonious toady to the Bush administration.
February 2006
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That angered even his normally toadyish interviewer.
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Pushing for direct links amounts to toadying to capitalists intent on exploiting the China market, and risks the future of this nation's workers.
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But I doubt if even the most toadyish East European regime would be willing to accept serious casualties.
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She would show Lord William that she was not about to turn into a weepy-faced toady over him.
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A pilot episode shows a toadyish Palestinian officer watching as a Jewish character machine-guns a group of West Bank children to death and drinks their blood.
NY Post: News
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He will win no plaudits for toadying to London and he has no future in Westminster anyway.
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Harshman ...) within crown-Bufonidae, and outside the enormous clade that includes all of the more familiar, more, err, 'toady'-looking toads.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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This produces some unexpected exchanges and some world-class toadying.
Times, Sunday Times
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You know, the all too familiar signs of smugness, ingratiating habits, or simply the false earnestness and self-satisfaction associated with a testosterone-powered toady.
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If that sounds toadyish, just take a look at two of its newest titles.
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You get very fed up with people being sycophantic, toadying to you, as a symptom of success.
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He describes the inner workings of the Persian court where fear of and toadying to the king predominated and how that affected the campaign against Greece.
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Total grovelling obeisance to Israel is a speciality, with much contempt for the Palestinians and support for Israel as they eviscerated Gazan children, and a manic scheme of extreme toadyish inventiveness, to attempt to arraign Ahmadinejad before the ICC for 'incitement to genocide' over his non-existent calls to 'wipe Israel off the map'.
Dissident Voice
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He can deliver on the essential part: being a cringing toady.
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I is teh pryvayte doody nurse aka toady and slave fer Teh Dawter, who is having teh yooyooal post-surgery paynes.
Bambi, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Mere subordination is unamusing, and we have a vocabulary that allows us to express our disapproval of people whose aim is nothing else but to please - toady, creep, sycophant, etc., are the correlates of the bully.
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Democracy is not well served by this deliberate polarization of issues, or by toadying to it.
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As the military surges into Afghanistan and Pakistan and Xe Services LLC (formerly known as Blackwater) and the CIA eke into Pakistan and Yemen, the appetites of toadyish liberal analysts demand their daily diet of Republican bogeys.
Legitgov
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This tendency had earned for her the reputation of "toady" by those who did not understand her, or were inclined to judge from the surface.
Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
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The only disrepute is through toadying management trying their utmost to pretend all is fine and dandy in the ranks, and present to ‘the public’ a false and toothy-grinned image of their local utopia.
Blogging in Tehran (good) Blogging in Lancashire (bad) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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But when I came to praise a faux professor of circumlocutory nonsense had razed the image immaculate – leaving a specious burst of wretched toadying.
Silence As Magnanimous Respect
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Jack is thick with Joxer, his fellow toper and toady, an even worse parasite than the Captain off whom he scrounges.
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Another "plunked" Sir Toady in a locality which he held yet more tender, especially, as now, before dinner.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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Being good at service means that we are servile and toadying and demeans our noble island spirit.
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The central development of Cromwell from a timid toady to a towering tyrant is well depicted.
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With this easy-to-use device, not available in stores, you can repackage an unobjectionable or toadying remark as an act of verbal courage.
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After a career spent shamelessly toadying to corporate interests, I will spend my retirement feeding the homeless.
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The anxiety of constantly toadying to their social superiors seems to curb their appetite, researchers suspect, at least when their regular high-fiber, low-fat chow is on the menu.
Comfort Food, for Monkeys « Isegoria
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He was grinning with the expectant air of an ambitious toady as he balanced on his tiptoes.
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Paris himself turns out to be an obsequious toady in Domitian's heady presence.
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Even by the standards of the Victorians, who had a pretty high tolerance level for toadying, this is slimy stuff.
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Like so many of the children of the rich, he had no trace of overnice sense of self-respect, having been lying and toadying all his life to a father who used the power of his wealth at home no less, rather more, than abroad.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I
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South Korea's policy harkens back to that Old Korea adopted toward Qing China called Sadaejuŭi 事大主義, translasted as "worship of the powerful," "flunkeyism," or "toadyism.
China, Mongolia, Korea
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The Chief Coroner could be simply a toady for the department.
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I am writing of events which took place years ago, but I have seen no reason to change the opinion then formed, that Mr. Parasyte, the principal, was a "toady" of the first water; that he was a narrow-minded, partial man, in whom the principle of justice had never been developed.
Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student
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Apparently Brian Kilmeade, the toady, is taking the words of Roger Ailes to heart and wants to secure his job.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Sen. Levin and Fox Anchor in On-Air Scuffle Over Iraq Plan
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Should I make some amusing reference to a recent out-of-school meeting, or will the teacher think I'm a toady?
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Mrs. Bennet, with her crudities and bullying and toadying, had caused the young men to flee in terror.
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So, if your daughter has a phallic toady lovie then, duh, your son gets a furry beaver lovie.
Ask Me About My Beaver | Her Bad Mother
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Even by the standards of the Victorians, who had a pretty high tolerance level for toadying, this is slimy stuff.
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It's a story about jealous and weak leaders toadying up to the current world power to effect the destruction of a source of truth who is troubling their comfort zone.
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And this kind of toady has an exquisite _flair_ for your greatness and dignity the moment he becomes quite sure of your pecuniary willingness to back both.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
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The former may give practical recognition of entire equality, to the best of his ability, but it will avail nothing, for the latter will not "toady" to his friend, nor be "patronized" by him.
Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays
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I admit he can be fearfully blunt at times, but surely that's better than being a toady?
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She was always toadying to the boss, but she didn't get a promotion out of it!
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He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a sycophant.
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You are a perfect example of an illiterate 'toady'!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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His life is a series of bureaucratic hurdles and toadying.
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They came backstage afterward, cooing and toadying to him.
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'I hardly think,' ... the Minister muttered to himself, practising the toadyish sneer for which he was justly loathed by all right thinking people, and adored by conference delegates ...
Gridlock
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Doubtless she couldn't help being airish and arrogant, but we should go slow on toadyism, now and hereafter, in my opinion, which however stands for no more than it amounts to I hasten to say.
Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
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The late earl had chosen to live in London all his life, and had sunk down to be the toadying friend, or perhaps I should more properly say the bullied flunky, of a sensual, wine-bibbing, gluttonous — — king.
Castle Richmond
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He humiliated and cheated the poor peasants, while toadying to landlords and potentates.
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Conversely, but equally false, is the image of a toady who curries favor from higher-ups or someone who twists selfsacrifice into a self-serving art form.
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Indian begum rolling in wealth, no countess mistress of castles and townhouses, ever had such a faithful toady as Hannah Hicks was to her mistress.
The Newcomes
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Does this reflect some covert biases he might know about at NPR, or just a fund-raiser's toadyish attempt to pull in $5 million?
NPR executive caught on camera -- doing what, exactly?
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Plus citing Authorities in the very first sentence just feels so very toadyish.
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TOADY emphasizes the servility and snobbery of the self-seeker cultivated leaders of society and became their toady.
Firedoglake » Bush’s Favorite Democrat Wows the Connecticut Press — Again
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Toady's seminar deals with learning about customer relations.
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It is enough that "my lud" has a handle to his name, and Murray Hill shoddyocracy will wine and dine and toady him, and perhaps for his title marry him to some sweet, pure and good American girl, whose life hereafter will be a purgatory to herself and a mutual misery to both.
Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South
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One, two, three, four -- Billiard is lugging Janie pickaback, and Mercy and Toady have made a chair for Rosslyn.
Tabitha's Vacation
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I'm not prepared to toady to him just to save my job.
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How very Scottish not to want to be seen toadying up to someone else's company in public.
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They reckoned it would be quite fatal for their credibility, toadying up to politicians.
