Meaning of Toady | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
   derogatory
2. A coarse, rustic woman.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“"But who is she, can you tell⟳ me?" / "Some fair-skinned speculation of old Montreville's, I suppose⟳, that she has got either to toady herself, or take⟳ in some of her black friends with.—Is it possible you have⟳ never heard of old Mother Montreville?"”

“Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know⟳ that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know⟳ it, would have⟳ made him or her out to be a toady and a humbug.”

“[T]he appearance of only three coaches, each drawn by four horses, was rather trying for poor Lady Scott. They contained Mrs Coutts – her future lord the Duke of St Albans – one of his Grace's sisters – a dame de compagnie (vulgarly styled a Toady)”

“"Go on, Hiram, show⟳ 'em what you can do," urged Luke Fodick, who was a sort⟳ of toady to Hiram Shell, the school bully, if ever there was one.”

“But how could she have⟳ helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.”

“Come⟳ 20 January, [Donald] Trump and his toadies – including billionaires such as Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – will have⟳ total control⟳ over the executive branch of the United States government.”

“Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman turned Democrat, said: “He’s absolutely risen to the occasion: he’s a thoroughly despicable, dishonest toady for Donald Trump, and he’s doing it wonderfully.”

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