toadyism
- a word derived from toady.
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
Furthermore, rumbled old John L., Philip Murray was "innocuous, feeble and namby-pamby," and guilty of "cringing toadyism."
From Time Magazine Archive
He charged that: -- "Disregard for the law, report padding, bribe taking, sycophancy and the encouragement of toadyism have had a deleterious effect on the moral atmosphere of the society."
From Time Magazine Archive
I find that he has the disease that seems 16 to afflict most theologians, and that is, a kind of intel- lectual toadyism, that uses the names of supposed great men instead of arguments.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
