Example Sentences

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And Abby Quinn is excellent as Natalie, mom’s campaign manager and toadying child.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Benchley shared screenwriting credit with Carl Gottlieb, who also plays the toadying publisher of the Amity newspaper.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2020

And its toadying relationship to those films may ultimately be its undoing, in that it sits clawing at the trouser hem of some of those towering examples of modern film art.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2019

Goodell’s toadying may gratify individual owners, but it has undermined their collective trust.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2016

The boy was born with a hatred of dirt and of lying and of toadying, and he is utterly intolerant of anybody who shows anything of the three.

From Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book by Ray, Anna Chapin