toady
noun
an obsequious flatterer; sycophant.
Example Sentences
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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
And today’s toadies, worshipers and opportunists may have some explaining to do to their descendants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Not that congressional toadies are the only offenders.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2020
He was ashamed of the toadies who reverenced a lord merely because he chanced to be born a lord, and pitied those who accepted without protest inferiority to men of wealth.
From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes
