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Like the most treacherous toadies from literature — Iago, Wormtongue, Tywin Lannister — Miller managed to shove aside rivals to latch onto his master’s ear and guide him toward more evil.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

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

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2025

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

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025

It skewers not only those who preach morality while practicing alternatives, but also the toadies and dupes who keep people like that in power.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

We are as abject toadies as any people on earth—more so than any European people of similar civilization.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)