| 单词 | toady |
| 例句 | But I would probably need the toady sailor to help me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As soon as I had the jacket over me the smell of the spice and soap and the sound of the crickets and toady- frogs outside made my eyes get real heavy. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z If he had to play toady, he would own the part today. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z All the bugs and toady- frogs shut right up, they quit chasing and biting each other ’cause this had to be the loudest whistle they’d ever heard too. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had a toady neighbour; a widow lady of that highly sympathetic nature that she agreed with everybody, blessed everybody, and shed smiles and tears on everybody, according to circumstances. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z On a cane throne sat an old toady lady. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It skewers not only those who preach morality while practicing alternatives, but also the toadies and dupes who keep people like that in power. Review: At ‘Tartuffe’ in the Park, Hypocrisy Is No Picnic 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Hunter’s generosity as a performer — listening intently, never grandstanding — spills over into her interpretation, giving us a Timon who chooses to think the best of her toadies. Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Timon’ Gets an Occupy Athens Makeover 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Murdoch's butler Philip Townsend paints a picture of a witty irascible figure low on confidence and with little time for toadying employees, fakes and the usual crowd who would try to curry influence. Rupert Murdoch and phone hacking: an insiders' story 2011-07-27T18:24:35Z Her routine was dominated by tippling and toadies. Review | Princess Margaret’s beauty and arrogance are on parade in ‘Ninety-Nine Glimpses’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z There’s a henpecked businessman who throws Gonda over in favor of toadying to his nagging wife and his harridan of a mother-in-law. Review: Ayn Rand’s ‘Ideal’ Presents a Protagonist Familiar in Her Superiority 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z I'd read glowing reviews of Bragg's previous novels and written them off as mere toadying to his eminent Lordship, but there is some fine prose here. Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg – review 2013-05-19T11:00:03Z And it portrays those close to him not as cardboard-cutout toadies but as desperate comic characters spinning around the drain of an enveloping cataclysm. ‘Vicuña’ is a comedy tailored to troubled political times 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Squirreled away in a dacha, a relatively modest woodland retreat at a remove from the Kremlin, Stalin kicks back with his toadies only to fall grievously ill later that same evening. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z But three decades later, we’ve got 15 percent more CO2 in the atmosphere and a fossil-fuel toady dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency, so maybe comedy is our only refuge. Of course Bernie Sanders endorsed this novel about a rebel in Vermont 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z He's helped by the scale of the hubris on display: the toadying and the arrogance, the cheek of the villains and the charm of their victims. You've Been Trumped – review 2012-07-05T21:18:01Z Terry and June's stifling urban setting was peopled with toady underlings sucking up to their bombastic, half-moon-spectacled boss. How TV portrays office culture 2012-10-09T19:00:04Z She disliked attending parties — “the toady circuit,” she termed it — and preferred to gather details over the phone. Diana McLellan, who dished Washington gossip with verve, dies at 76 Now, it's true my husband isn't one to toady up to people. Perspective | Miss Manners: Is my husband being snubbed by famous writers? 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Brecht's first impulse, in Haley's account, was to "toady" to the German State by giving public support to the brutal Soviet suppression of the strikes. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z He was an unrepentant racist who alternately dismissed or fetishized blacks, bragged about his white-supremacist uncle and toadied up to Jefferson Davis and other Confederate stalwarts, drawing parallels between Southern secessionism and Irish republicanism. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Curtis enlivens the movie with music, busyness and Zoe Wanamaker’s darkly comic, toadying turn as Monroe’s acting coach, Paula Strasberg, and, always, the promise of the real Monroe. | 'My Week With Marilyn': ?My Week With Marilyn,? With Michelle Williams - Review 2011-11-22T17:12:23Z Finch toadies up to the aging boss, played by 1920s crooner Rudy Vallee, by joining in the old man’s college fight song, “Grand Old Ivy.” Robert Morse, two-time Tony-winning actor, dies at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z To be clear, we fully expect several of these toadies to pop up as CNN contributors or to get their own show on Fox News. For the good of the nation, let's not normalize any Trump flunkies with primetime TV cameos 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z This is Czechoslovakia, 1989, and toadies of the old order are scrambling to ingratiate themselves with the new. ‘The Velvet Oratorio,’ at Bohemian National Hall 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Her toadies and allies of convenience are unsure where the power lies now, who best to suck up to. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Rigoletto's biting humor is lost in the extravaganza, to some extent evaporating that plotline and the reason for the anger of the Duke's toadies. Mayer's `Rigoletto,' set in Vegas, opens at Met 2013-01-29T20:16:03Z “I’m so proud I’ve been able to convince people how fake it is,” he bragged to Lou Dobbs, one of his favorite media toadies, on Fox Business Network last fall, talking about mainstream media reporting. Perspective | Trump doesn’t believe his own damaging rants about ‘fake news’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z In Phoenix, Trump praised his friends at Fox News, with especially kind words for his most dependable toady, Sean Hannity, and the cheerleaders at “Fox & Friends.” Perspective | Trump’s vicious attack on the media shows one thing clearly: He’s running scared 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Commenting on young James VI of Scotland’s penchant for toadying to his aunt, England’s aging Queen Elizabeth, Goldstone notes that “this expedient was somewhat put to the test in the aftermath of his mother’s beheading.” Royal Ladies, Royal Intrigue 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Rather, it's because the show gives us some answer as to how the terrible corporate and political toadies in those congressional hot seats became the awful people that they are. "Succession" ends its second season with a killer instinct 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z An full hour of cloying, self-indulgent, one-on-one toadying which proved that Ross was just as proficient at bumlicking as he was at teasing. Jonathan Ross: his BBC highs and lows 2010-07-16T12:57:00Z Presidential elections are run by polling organizations, political consultants, and all manner of hucksters, frauds, and toadies. Donald Trump, the Great Embarrassment 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z You also guide Aliya’s conversations, choosing between dialogue options that range from toadying to confrontational in order to successfully extract information. The Best Video Games of 2019 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z This week the Empress brings back a contest she judged back when she was a wee proto-empress, filling in for the vacationing Czar for four weeks in 1995, and identified only as “a trusted toady.” Style Invitational Week 1463: Fork over some (new) spoonerisms 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Instead of running alongside the limo, as Packer’s toadies do, I felt like a prisoner who had glumly noticed the back door’s unlock buttons were controlled by the driver. Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 2: Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis 2012-05-25T18:05:46Z Two replies later, Boris was toadying: " I am with Russell on that point." Russell Brand rules Question Time's clash of the egos 2013-06-21T00:13:16Z Come 2024, remember the names and misplaced loyalties of those California lawmakers who voted to install an insurrection-backing, integrity-lacking Trump toady as head of the body that calls itself the People’s House. Column: These California Republicans voted for Jim Jordan and against the good of the country. Remember their names 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z “Instead of tackling the cost-of-living crisis, the Tories are spending their time doling out rewards for those who tried to cover up rule-breaking and toadied to a disgraced former prime minister,” she said. Boris Johnson rewards allies, and a hairdresser, with honors as critics cry foul 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z They plan to salt every department with GOP toadies from the military to the DOJ to the Department of Education to the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. The ambitious Republican plot to take it all down 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is prepared to completely upend the civil service and executive branch to fill it with Republican toadies. The unequal treatment of Trump v. DeSantis: Who gets the advantage? 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Second, when not toadying to Trump, some Fox News personnel were saying, in effect, that they wished that he, like the Wicked Witch of the West, would melt away. Opinion | Fox News behaved egregiously, but the settlement was good for the law 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z He died in a prison of his own making: in the bathroom, mostly off-screen, surrounded by toadies, up in the air. Perspective | ‘Succession’ goes for the kill 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z It was classic Sawant that despite this, she threw unions in general under the bus in her City Hall retirement announcement, calling them toadies to the “corporate Democrats” and “afraid to rock the boat.” Seattle’s Kshama Sawant was a tale for our time, but the story fizzled 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z A number of election deniers, who had toadied to Trump by repeating his lies about the 2020 campaign, went down to deserved defeat. Column: Biden as the comeback kid, Trump as the biggest loser: Takeaways from the midterm election 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “If it’s a bunch of toadies, we get more paranoia paraded as policy.” China’s Xi gets chance to tighten hold on economy at meeting 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, this strategy seems to be catching on with his toadies and minions in the party: Trump and his minions up their threats as his legal case crumbles 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Trump will always choose himself over his country’s interests; and because his Republican toadies cannot help but stick by him, that means they will always preference his interests over America’s, too. Opinion | Is there no crime Trump could commit that would lose him GOP support? 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z The propaganda site criticised Yoon and his picks for ministers of defence, foreign affairs and the unification portfolio as "pro-U.S. toadies" who had sought confrontation while serving in previous conservative governments. N.Korea slams South's new leader as 'pro-U.S., confrontational' 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z McGeachin toadied up to Trump, calling his blessing “the most coveted endorsement in political history.” ‘Quietly moving on’: Trump’s mojo may be waning out West 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z I would rather have a president who is fearless in calling out Putin’s war crimes than one who toadies to the Russian tyrant. Opinion | Biden’s support for Ukraine and opposition to Putin were no ‘gaffe’ 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z The IOC, historical toady of tyrants, distinguished itself with a statement that, as usual, combined fraudulence with cowardice: “We have seen the latest reports and are encouraged by assurances that she is safe.” Perspective | The WTA cares enough about Peng Shuai to stand up to China. Does anyone else? 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, the former vice president has tarnished the record of his Jan. 6 courage with subsequent toadying to Mr. Trump, including criticizing the media for what he called overplaying the significance of Jan. 6. Opinion | Fresh reporting on Jan. 6 is a powerful rebuke to those minimizing events of that terrible day 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z "There's nothing strange for him to nominate pro-U.S. toadies seeking confrontation with the same people," it added. N.Korea slams South's new leader as 'pro-U.S., confrontational' 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z But his comments during his interview with Hannity suggest that the toadying and servility Pence engaged in nearly every day as Trump’s vice president are difficult to shake. Opinion | Mike Pence did a service to democracy on Jan. 6. Why is he trying to undo it now? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z I love the smell of toadying in the morning. Euro 2020: buildup to Netherlands v Czech Republic and Belgium v Portugal – live! 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z He also hinted at the substance of Mr. Carlson’s less guarded observations: “A canny TV diplomat, he won’t say Trump is terrified, weak, politically doomed, in deep denial and surrounded by toadies and mediocrities.” Tucker Carlson Calls Journalists ‘Animals.’ He’s Also Their Best Source. 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z While Graham is just a sad toady to the president in exile now, he's not alone. Mike Pompeo's whitewashing of Trump's record backfires 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z He could have picked a toady, a dinosaur or yet another white guy. Flailing Washington Post gets a new leader at last — with no time to lose 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z I just wrote about the new reports of the nefarious abuse of the Justice Department to track down an anonymous Twitter user who mocked one of Trump's closest toadies in Congress, California Rep. Devin Nunes. Trump's DOJ went to war against the press: Seizure of CNN reporter's personal records is chilling 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Unlike in a parliamentary system, there is no penalty for appointing toadies and hyperpartisan hacks to the Cabinet. Perspective | Did Trump prove that governments with presidents just don’t work? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z "Trump is so far undeterred by electoral defeat — and practically speaking, the 25th Amendment is a dead letter because it relies on his own hand-picked toadies," Sykes argues. As Trump's behavior grows increasingly unhinged, conservative considers case for 2nd impeachment 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z But the war industry demands a toady with the opposite skill set. Will the Dems sell us out in the midst of a pandemic? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Forgive us, O Premeer League, for this dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery. Tottenham v Leicester City: Premier League – live! 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Such toadying to the president isn’t good, but it’s not unique to this administration. Be thankful for the independent judiciary 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z We also are disgusted by his toadies who suffer him with an utter lack of principle, morals and character because winning is more important to them than anything. Opinion | It’s time to cast Trump aside 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z After four years of relentless lying and toadying to this reality-TV villain who sleazed his way into the Oval Office, the Trump apologists don't know how to quit him. Hey, Fox News: Go home, you're drunk — it's time to admit that the Trump party's over 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z So far Trump appears to be responsible for the most egregious attempt to skew the election, through his appointment of a toady postmaster who disrupted the U.S. Don’t let Trump spoil remarkable election 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Not that congressional toadies are the only offenders. Opinion | R.I.P., G.O.P. 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z It was answered in the sudden burst of Twitter toadying from Fox commentator Skip Bayless, who had inexcusably belittled Prescott for admitting to depression in the offseason. Perspective | Dak Prescott delivered a hell of a message this season, and it will outlast his injury 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Attorney General William P. Barr probably thought that by sacrificing his reputation to become a slavering toady, he would remain safely in Trump’s good graces. Opinion | Trump on drugs. Who could have seen this coming? 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z And as soon as that toady assumed his post, he took measures whose immediate effect was to slow down the mail, putting the ability of people to vote in a timely fashion in grave jeopardy. Trump mega-donor Louis DeJoy's testimony makes clear: He can't be trusted with the post office 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z There's no guarantee that DeJoy will return postal operations to normal levels, as he promised to do, and the Trump toady and big Republican donor continues to hobble the mail in other ways. Trump’s attacks on mail-in ballots are a desperate attempt to undermine democracy 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z Nowadays, Wolf’s posts generate pages of comments denouncing him as a fascist and the toady of an authoritarian president — or lionizing him as a loyal Trump soldier. Chad Wolf emerges as Trump’s favorite Department of Homeland Security chief 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z And Barr is “sycophantic,” a “toady” who evolved from “principled conservative to Trump apologist.” Review | Trump tried to shut him down, but Robert Mueller was his own worst enemy 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Assorted prominent Republicans have suddenly discovered the courage not to be toadies. Opinion | My kids expect Trump to win. If he does, we owe them an apology. 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z "Also AG Bill Barr. But why not Senator Kelly Loeffler, who also sold stocks? Because Burr is not a Trump toady, this looks like a vendetta!" FBI seizes Richard Burr’s phone after serving Apple with warrant for his iCloud account: reports 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z It stings because it revealed not just his own selfish ineptitude, but the toadying cowardice of a facility whose entire reason for being is supposed to be healing. "They let us down": The Mayo Clinic's galling obsequiousness to Mike Pence 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In one sector after another, we’ve seen experts systemically purged and replaced with toadying apparatchiks. Opinion | Coronavirus and the Price of Trump’s Delusions 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Today, the highest echelons of the federal government are occupied by Trump toadies who are willing to delay desperately needed help for millions of Americans to assuage Trump’s most childish demands. Column: Nixon wanted to take credit for government checks too, but a top official stopped him 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Trump won't be able to spin scenes of death and dying out of existence, no matter how many toadying fools he's got standing behind him in the White House press room. Trump can f**k this up and still win in November: Here's how to stop him 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Hospital workers, airport screeners and others aren't just caving in like spineless Trump toadies bowing to their Great Leader. Donald Trump is putting healthcare workers in grave danger 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Republicans lost half their seats in 2018 when Democrats tagged GOP incumbents as Trump toadies. The leader of California's Republican Party has a strategy for success: Never mention Trump 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Having “a Trump toady and a sycophant” as director of national intelligence raised national security concerns, said Groombridge. Baby-faced assassin: the 29-year old at the heart of Trump's 'deep state' purge 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z As the Democrats sputter and spat and fight over federal giveaways and N.D.A.s, the unfettered president is overturning the rule of law and stuffing the agencies with toadies. Opinion | America’s Parasite 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z And almost everyone outside a dishonest, self-deceiving circle of Republican stooges and Trump toadies knows it. So the west is winning, is it? Only if you’re a delusional Trump toady, Mr Pompeo 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z He was such a Trump toady that he even acquired “Gold” level status at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Opinion | Trump appoints a partisan propagandist to run the intelligence community 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z After months of toadying and appeasing and giving the president everything he wanted, Barr is now walking a familiar Trump tightrope. Bill Barr's sudden rift with Trump: It's probably real, and the president must be furious 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z That’s a line a few GOP senators may embrace during the closing debate, even as the president’s most toadying supporters echo the claim that he “did absolutely nothing wrong.” Opinion | How the Senate can still hold Trump accountable 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The host accused those party operatives of using CNN to target Sanders and "signal to all the other establishment toadies to pile on" by accusing Sanders of being a "sexist." Tucker Carlson: Bernie Sanders as the frontrunner is 'the nightmare scenario' for Washington Democrats 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z It remained one of the hallmarks of the show as Parsons, with varying degrees of success, dealt with panellists such as Kenneth Williams, whose treatment of his chairman ranged from toadying sycophancy to outright abuse. Obituary: Nicholas Parsons 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Faced with the prospect that an embarrassingly high percentage of Wisconsin Republicans might reject Trump’s re-election run, the president and his toadies panicked. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z To a long list of professional milestones, Barr is adding toady, minion and yes man. Opinion | It’s up to voters to prevent four more years of institutional vandalism 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z But at least it clarified that Durham is either a Rod Rosenstein-esque toady, afraid to stand up for himself, or another Trump partisan. Donald Trump's one-man wrecking crew: Bill Barr wants to defeat impeachment, and then some 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Every day the hypocrisy and corruption of the establishment and its toadies in the media is laid bare. Michael Bloomberg’s icky plunge reveals Democratic desperation 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Even if they don’t end up in prison like other Trump toadies, they have dishonored themselves and the nation. Trump's impeachment shows US officials at their best and his allies at their worst | Robert Reich 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Unless you are a slavish toady, such personalities will eventually see you as an enemy. Psychologist John Gartner: "Deep inside, Donald Trump is a very empty and sad person" 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z There’s an officiousness—an almost disingenuous toadying—to these interactions that I, with my modern, fashionable prejudices, find a bit funny and gross. Noel Ignatiev’s Long Fight Against “Whiteness” 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z “But worse will be his toadies adopting this inversion of past and present, with the nation’s most powerful racist as a victim of racist violence, as a talking point.” President Trump roundly criticized for comparing the impeachment inquiry against him to a "lynching" 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Why is it so upsetting to hear LeBron James toady to China? Perspective | China is getting exactly what it wants from LeBron James and the NBA: Capitulation 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z A few who still try to do the right thing are kept in vulnerable “acting” positions and hemmed in by toadies and hacks in subordinate positions. Opinion | It’s not news that Trump is corrupt. What’s new is how he is succeeding in corrupting our government. 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z In their view, parents who permitted vaccination were gullible toadies of status quo medicine. How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z A series of laws that economically and politically disenfranchised formerly enslaved people led to many of toady's inequality, according to historians. The hidden links between slavery and Wall Street 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Much of the rest of Mr. Mueller’s testimony reminded Americans why the president and his congressional toadies do not want the special counsel’s report discussed honestly. Opinion | Mueller gave a warning on Russian meddling. Congress — and America — should listen. 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Evidently, the only lines that formed in Epstein’s world were the female children he paid to victimize and the toadies who craved close proximity to the wealth and power he exuded. Jeffrey Epstein is Exhibit A for capitalism’s moral bankruptcy 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z And yet the toadies keep covering for him. Opinion | Trump isn’t just speaking lies. He’s inviting loyalists to live in his own political reality. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Attorney General William Barr has taken toadying to a bizarre new low with his plan to have the Justice Department investigate how U.S. intelligence agencies investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Before departing England on Wednesday, Trump granted an interview to his friend and toady, Piers Morgan, who is now a host on morning television. A Gobshite American President in Ireland 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z In Graham, we are seeing God in the hands of an angry political toady. Opinion | Franklin Graham has played his ultimate Trump card 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The rest have become the most sycophantic of Donald Trump's toadies, acting as his most loyal henchmen. Yes, Justin Amash is an impeachment hero. Don't expect other Republicans to follow him 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z "A toady in the White House," the tweet read. New Yorker portrays AG Barr as a massive 'toady' on top of White House 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z When I asked Graham whether he ever worried about being seen as a toady to Trump, his voice assumed a slightly clipped edge. How Lindsey Graham Went From Trump Skeptic to Trump Sidekick 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Not far into the Republican questioning, Kim might have said something like: “I thought I knew toadying, but I’ve never seen anything like this. Don, what is your secret?” Opinion | The GOP performance at the Cohen hearing was a study in moral corruption 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z This inevitably leads to bland toadies holding office who get nothing done but look good. Look to character, not past indiscretions, in public servants 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z There is a long line of discarded toadies in Trump's wake. A new low for Lindsey Graham: How a maverick turned Trump sycophant 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The would-be autocrat surrounds himself with toadies who spend more time scheming against one another — sometimes to comic effect — than trying to offer their boss sound guidance or thoughtful policy solutions. Opinion | The GOP has become the pro-Russia party 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Republicans will then have the choice of whether to vote for their own bills and override Trump's veto or once again be his toadies. Mueller's report is on the way — and Donald Trump's 2019 problems are just starting 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z That finally drove Defense Secretary Jim Mattis out of the Pentagon, which — at least according to the mainstream media narrative — leaves the president surrounded only by zealots and toadies, freed from adult supervision. Another crazy Christmas with Donald Trump: But he can't wreck it, because he doesn't understand it 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z Here’s the question: Are these important cabinet members merely toadies to Trump? A cabinet of toadies: Pompeo and Mattis just parrot whatever nonsense Trump’s gut believes 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z All of this dovetails nicely with questions surrounding the American president’s toadying posture towards Riyadh. Trump's hotel profited from clumsy Saudi-backed lobbying campaign 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z He didn't exercise any serious oversight either, but did not behave like quite such a toady and buffoon. Devin Nunes protected Roger Stone and Donald Trump Jr. from Mueller probe: Democrats won’t 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z One columnist called him a “bootlicker”; another went with “the ne plus ultra of media toadying.” Another Trump Scoop, a Giddy Reaction and a Reporter Under Fire 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Couldn’t Anonymous and the other high-level Trump-minders he supposedly speaks for save the republic by resigning openly, en masse, and giving Robert Mueller the information that might truly slay the dragon and discredit Pence’s toadying? “Resistance” in the White House? Please, let’s not fall for that line 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Following the uproar over his toadying to Putin, he would be foolish to try anytime soon. Opinion | Putin is probably still smirking about Helsinki. He shouldn’t be. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Various politicians and establishment toadies were simply not interested in a serious, measured response to the event. The left peddles outrage with Strzok’s bizarre testimony, hysteria over Trump’s Helsinki comments 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z As you’ve made clear, the practice of faculty recommendation puts pressures on law-review editors that may involve the abuse of power, temptations to toady and a host of other unfortunate effects. Why Does a Creepy Co-Worker Keep Getting a Pass? 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The Vice-President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury are all Trump toadies. Trump Unleashed is a Danger to the World 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Visibly buoyed by suggestions from Republican toadies that he already deserved the Nobel peace prize, Mr Trump appeared to believe he was on course to solve one of the world’s most intractable security problems. Donald Trump cancels his meeting with Kim Jong Un 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z But the spymasters discounted the information, while “toadying KGB officers on the ground…sent back alarmist reports.” The world almost ended in 1983 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Featured front and center, since Trump'$ library will only have a handful of books... mainly ghost written ones "by" him and phony hagiographies by the likes of toady authors. The Man Behind the President’s Tweets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z This is a president who hired “the Mooch” to run communications in the White House, and whose original team of mostly male toadies seemed more like Goodfellas extras than professional politicos. Stormy Daniels has spoken. It doesn’t look good for Trump – or us | Jill Filipovic 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z If the case against gun manufacturers is indeed as weak as those same manufacturers and their toadies in Congress claim, what are they so afraid of? Why is the gun industry so afraid of the long arm of the law? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z How do you explain away the words of a man who builds his campaign around toadying to the National Rifle Association and then urges members of Congress to stand up to the NRA? Goodbye, Hope Hicks. Can we bring the Mooch back now? | Richard Wolffe 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z One can reasonably acquit Graham of anti-Semitism only by convicting him of toadying. Opinion | Billy Graham was no prophet 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z It's instructive to watch the political advocacy press message its team members and toadies/trainees. The Man Behind the President’s Tweets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Like the JFK assassination devotees, Trump’s toadies seamlessly shift their arguments but never waver in their devotion to an all-encompassing conspiracy theory. Opinion | A vicious vortex of irrationality is sucking in the Republican Party 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Obviously, the people in Trump's group of toadies couldn't put together a plot as clandestine as this and arrange an effective cover-up. Sessions Is Questioned as Russia Inquiry Focuses on Obstruction 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z I agree with much of what Frum writes — his diagnosis of how the Republican Party succumbed to Trump, his judgment of Trump’s enablers and toadies, his critique of Trump’s disgraceful behavior and its coarsening effect. Opinion | Trump So Far Is More Farce Than Tragedy 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z His appearance last Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” — in which he hailed his boss as a “political genius” — was a master class in toadying. Opinion | President Trump and the survival of the servile 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The way to turn that corner is by removing Scott Walker as governor and booting from office as many of his toadies as possible. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Until and unless standing up for what is right is more important than toadying to the powerful, outrageous misbehavior will continue. Editorials from around New York 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Now Trump toadies have a brush with which to tar any woman who might testify that the president’s long history of crude boasting is more than mere “locker room talk.” Opinion | One Hillary Clinton supporter’s rotten political empire 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Dictionary.com defines sycophant as “a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite,” and provides “toady, yes man, flunky, fawner” and “flatterer” as acceptable synonyms. Dictionary.com calls Mike Pence a ‘sycophant’ for Trump 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Some male reporters came in for scorn as toadies or morons or liars. Perspective | The two expat bros who terrorized women correspondents in Moscow 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The Republicans have three primary goals: using laws to move more money to the rich; decreasing regulations on industry; and, packing the courts with toadies. Tax Plan’s Biggest Cuts Could Be in Living Standards 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z If we allow Trump and his sycophant toadies to paper this over, it will remain an open wound forever on our national sovereignty. Opinion | The Sleazy Case Against Mueller’s Probe 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z He has called climate change “a myth” and has helped to plant fossil-fuel toadies in crucial Trump administration posts. The vacuity of Mike Pence 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Wouldn't it be lovely to see this toady and ideologically tainted shill evicted by Nancy Pelosi with a Democratic win of the House in 2018. Opinion | The Self-Dealing Presidency of Donald Trump 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z America is quickly becoming a banana republic with the liar in chief and his toadies in Congress dismantling the New Deal ASAP. Opinion | The G.O.P. Is No Party for Honest Men 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z You would never guess that this toady in a suit works for us. The fate of creation and its wonders is at stake 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z For the most part, this line signifies the barrier between glumly accepting America’s vision of emasculated, toadying Asian men and the great promise of success and masculine fulfillment. What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z He has called climate change “a myth” and has helped to plant fossil-fuel toadies in crucial Trump administration posts. The vacuity of Mike Pence 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Shorn of its tragedy and reduced to something more like farce, “Darkness at Noon” becomes an instruction manual for understanding the psychology of the toadying functionaries who infest the Trump administration. Must they have so little dignity? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z America is quickly becoming a banana republic with the liar in chief and his toadies in Congress dismantling the New Deal ASAP. Opinion | The G.O.P. Is No Party for Honest Men 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Shorn of its tragedy and reduced to something more like farce, Darkness at Noon becomes an instruction manual for understanding the psychology of the toadying functionaries who infest the Trump administration. Must they have so little dignity? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z He is as quick to skewer activists as he is toadying company men and morally abstract upper management. “Okja”, a heart-warming homily on the horrors of the meat industry 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z So the most corrupt of all are those GOP senators, they were lobbied to approve these but those who have the most to gain from the incompetence and greed of the cabinet toady's. Opinion | Name Your Pick for TrumpWorld’s Worst Cabinet Member 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z This explains why Mr. Trump’s focus on empowering the American people and “Making America Great Again” is anathema to the Democrats and their toadies. Donald Trump revolution an irritant to Democrats 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Both the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Ossoff’s campaign have attacked Handel not as a Trump toady, but as a spendthrift who used public resources to acquire a luxury car and decorate an office. If Democrats don’t win one of three upcoming special elections, how can they take back the majority in 2018? 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Such will not be the case for Mike Pence, the toady vice president and the personification of much that has gone wrong in Washington. Opinion | Trump doesn’t embody what’s wrong with Washington. Pence does. 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z I mean does anyone think the orange fool and his circle of toadies and his greedy daughter and airhead son-in-law know what they are doing. China’s Leader Urges Restraint on North Korea in Call With Trump 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Conservative news outlets had already branded Mr. Comey a Clinton toady. Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics. Then He Shaped an Election. 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Having to become one of a dozen mealy-mouthed Trump toadies instead just doesn’t present the same opportunities for a man with Chaffetz’s towering ego and ambition. Loyalists head for the exits: Even Jason Chaffetz begins to change his tune on Trump and transparency 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z “If he sends over toadies beholden to Donald Trump, it would be a very serious threat to the Fed’s independence.” Fed’s Challenge, After Raising Rates, May Be Existential 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z One of the toadies is Sir Edward Denham, the nephew of Lady Denham’s second husband, and an idiot of a very particular brand. Reading Jane Austen’s Final, Unfinished Novel 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z He called her “superior, dismissive and arrogant”; she called him a “celebrity toady”. JK Rowling lands cunning blow in Twitter war against Piers Morgan 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Republicans say opposition to DeVos is the work of teachers unions and their toadies in the Democratic Party. The popular uprising that threatens the Betsy DeVos nomination 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The money didn’t help, the super PACs weren’t enough and Trump endlessly mocked his opponents for toadying to big donors. Donald Trump Dismantles Hillary Clinton's Big Money Machine 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Goodell’s toadying may gratify individual owners, but it has undermined their collective trust. In Roger Goodell’s NFL, end-zone dances matter more than domestic violence 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z “Nothing can tear me away from your love, Lord,” sang Free Chapel’s rock ensemble: something similar seems to go for the candidate’s evangelical toadies. Absalom’s revenge 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Or watched Venus and sister Serena Williams, the richest female athlete in the world, wheeling their own luggage carts through the arrival area of the Rio airport without a single toady in tow. Column: What to get the pro who has everything? Bug spray! 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Comey’s would-be inquisitors could not come out and call him a compliant Democratic toady because clearly he is nothing of the sort. House Republicans cravenly turn on James Comey 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z But Bernie has other core reasons for not dissipating his bargaining power by descending to the bended-knee posture of a toady. Ralph Nader to Bernie Sanders: 'It Ain't Over Til It's Over' 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z “Why not demolish all Western-style apartment blocks…so as not to toady to foreign powers?” wrote one contributor to an online forum. Exterminate the foreign names 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “In Las Vegas, a quintessential company town, it’s the blowhard billionaires and their political toadies who are worth punching,” he wrote in the letter. Journalist resigns after being barred from writing about Las Vegas newspaper’s right-wing billionaire owner Sheldon Adelson 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z In Las Vegas, a quintessential company town, it’s the blowhard billionaires and their political toadies who are worth punching. Columnist quits over ban on writing about billionaire Sheldon Adelson 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The suggestion is that Van Hollen is some sort of toady for the National Rifle Association, but the reality is more complicated. Donna Edwards’s NRA-themed attack on Chris Van Hollen’s deal-making 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The term “systemic opposition” in Russia usually refers to the toadies and sycophants who support Mr. Putin. Putin’s most aggressive attack dog is unleashed 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z He even more remarkably allowed her to get to his left with an unanswered claim that he was a National Rifle Association toady. The Bernie Bomb 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Three-quarters of the 120 seats in a new “National Reform Assembly” will be reserved for toadies now serving in one of the junta’s various conclaves. A baby-sitters’ charter 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z You windbags and toadies, members of parliament, generals and professors. Viewpoint: Why I loved Nemtsov 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z His brain was probably not in the best shape, addled as it was by years of codeine abuse that was enabled by a cadre of toadying doctors. With help from Howard Hughes, scientists push the limits of mortality 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Even infused with a toadying creepiness, Oswald flourishes as a sympathetic chap, the guy you can’t help rooting for. ‘Gotham’ star Taylor delights fans with his Penguin villainy 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Had the media reported fairly and accurately about Chris Christie's disturbingly unsavory past as a disgraced county freeholder, ruthless lobbyist, Karl Rove toady and corrupt U.S. Scott Walker Shows Promise Heading Into 2016 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z “The only defense the administration and its toadies have left is that anyone criticizing the exchange, which would include the military and the intelligence communities, hates soldiers.” Obama Criticized for Bergdahl Taliban Swap, Pundits React 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Instead, he has had toadying TV interviewers lob soft questions at him, and had his campaign vet the answers before they were aired to put him in the best light. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Walker is a charisma-free Koch brothers toady who has more in common with Christie than alleged statehouse pragmatism: his own ethically challenged aides, back in Milwaukee. GOP’s “deep bench” for 2016 is now in splinters 2014-01-23T12:45:00Z He has long accused Barroso of toadying to national capitals at the expense of Europe. Analysis: Old Europe vs. New Europe in race for Commission chief 2014-01-20T07:05:20Z It wasn't just blind loyalty, though, toadying up to the manager - more a conviction that given time he would come good. The real Sir Alex 2013-05-18T22:46:17Z "Do I look like a toady to you?" he says with a grin. Andrew Tyrie: fresh from the HBOS debacle, now serious about reform 2013-04-19T23:01:13Z After all the disparate one size fits all currency has worked very well for Germany and her toadies and a disaster for everyone else. The euro crisis: The most important number 2012-11-30T15:16:23Z The super rich will be buying private jets, luxury cars, diamond bras, space tourism, and other kinds of personal services, while supporting small armies of assistants, dogsbodies, lawyers, toadies, and politicians. Decision Time: Are You Neiman Marcus or Walmart? 2012-06-14T13:05:52Z My uncle was a shipowner, and pretty well-to-do: indeed, your poor mother's friends used to advise me to keep in with him, but I couldn't toady to the old bear. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z The boy who dazzled his mates with the glitter of sovereigns fresh from the Mint would be suppressed as promptly by the public opinion of the place as the toady or the parasite. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Afterward several lads said the bully’s toady looked dazed, as if he did not understand what had happened. Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner 2012-02-17T03:00:33.267Z He was a shifty, flattering fellow, at once a toady and a backbiter; who had wormed himself into society too good for him, and in London was Vaughan's b�te noir. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z After toadying to the marvelous for a while, he sought a natural explanation of the phenomenon and honestly tried not to want it to prove inexplicable. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Bennett milks plenty of humor from this situation, and neatly skewers the self-serving toadies who surround those in power. Mad George III Gropes Ladies as Politicians Plot: London Stage 2012-01-26T06:54:39Z What I like about her is that she doesn't toady. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z He, too, saw which way the wind was likely to blow, and noting that Hiram had changed his conduct toward Joe it was up to the bully’s toady to do the same. Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner 2012-02-17T03:00:33.267Z I saw too, that Devinsky's old seconds and toadies were near and were watching me and smirking. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z He was accordingly attacked as a toady to the rich. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Far from being robust and uninhibited, he wrote, the press was often a toady to government and business. Tom Wicker, Journalist and Author, Dies at 85 2011-11-25T22:02:10Z "Exactly so!" exclaimed Mr. Swayne, who seemed to enjoy the prospect exceedingly, even independent of his desire to flatter and "toady" to his commander. Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck 2011-11-04T02:00:18.377Z He spends his money freely and toadies to them, and they fairly black his shoes. Baseball Joe on the School Nine or, Pitching for the Blue Banner 2012-02-17T03:00:33.267Z He said this in a tone that was insufferably insolent; and as if to point the insult, the two toadies when they heard it, sniggered audibly. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z This typical toady—Napoleon's Eavesdropper Extraordinary—had arrived at Malmaison on December 18th. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z Without being a “toady”—that creature so hateful to the normal young person—Laura was very good friends with all the instructors. The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors 2011-08-11T02:00:17.153Z May is a total disgrace - concerns indeed!!!!!When will the lickspittle toadying cease and when will someone have the guts to stand up to these people. May to raise 'concerns' over Met 2011-07-17T11:36:01Z There is perhaps too much obloquy bestowed upon the toady and tuft hunter. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z A movement among the group of toadies shewed me how this burlesque of my conduct was appreciated there, while Devinsky was grinning boastfully. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z He would not toady others, and disliked being toadied himself. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Hester had toadied to juniors and seniors alike—especially to those who were members of the secret society. The Girls of Central High Rivals for All Honors 2011-08-11T02:00:17.153Z "It is just that nephew of yours, Mr. Hadleigh," said his wife; "a little sneaking fellow, trying to toady himself into your favour by industry, and then returning it in this fashion." Owen's Fortune Or, "Durable Riches" 2011-06-23T02:00:28.497Z Even foreigners do not seem above this log-rolling, and toady to the editor of the influential journal. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z Sister says she toadies fearfully, and she flirted like a silly at the games, and at the drill. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z And I walked on into the House, leaving Grandon more petrified than the two little toadies I had snubbed. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z Bull Harris smiled benignly upon his toadying echo, while the rest of the gang nodded approvingly. A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z To say that, as a great moral reformer, he had no enemies, would be to say that he was a toady and a time-server. History of Prince Edward Island 2011-04-16T02:00:17.027Z A burst of indignation went through the whole township against the Chief; and even his most intimate friends and subservient toadies could not defend him. The Last Laird of MacNab An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada 2011-04-14T02:00:54.620Z Was the old man delirious, or had he, Stephen, really played the part of sycophant, toady and boot-licker all these years for nothing? Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z Hence, by constantly toadying and flattering each other, they insensibly foster that description of pride which apes humility, and acquire that air of subdued arrogance which is so displeasing to society at large. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z Prominent among them were Bull and his toadying little friend, Baby Edwards. A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z Kazik, why the devil are you toadying up to the boss and spoiling other people's chances? More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z I simply popularized Dr. Burley's learned, but certainly obscurely-written article, giving its author full credit; and now he says I misrepresented him, and his complaint is echoed by every toady in Hampton. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z 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. The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z Don’t let’s toady to rich girls when we get to this school. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z I mean they toady to the people who are rich or generous and they scamp their work in places where they're not 'remembered.' In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z If Quarren had not been guilty of actually fawning, toadying, currying favour, he had certainly permitted himself to be rudely used. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z But only about half the Tory MPs who questioned him, the toadying half, agreed. Bob Diamond loses his shine as MPs quiz him over banking and bonuses 2011-01-12T00:01:02Z Some of the junior and sophomore girls who, as Bobby said, were inclined to “toady” to members of the first class, took up cudgels for the seniors, too. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z It is the cleanest of ironies that Cameron's toadying press conference at Downing Street with Blatter last month followed one in which the prime minister committed himself to complete transparency in government. World Cup 2018: Grey dawn of defeat for David Cameron and Co 2010-12-02T19:32:00Z Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, accused of toadying to America, appeared before the lower house of Parliament to deny that his allegiance was anywhere but with India. India Passes Nuclear Deal 2010-08-30T16:40:00Z As for King, he aligned himself quite closely with the Tory worldview ahead of the election – and vice versa – so he is getting his just reward for honest toadying. George Osborne's gamble 2010-06-17T09:57:00Z India's still playing a craven toady to a US that is ruthlessly pursuing an agenda where commercial interests are put above the lives of others. Obama hasn't learned lessons of Bhopal 2010-06-10T11:33:00Z She goes for every new girl, and toadies till she's got all she can, or grows tired of it. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life However, Flashey was not unused to this sort of thing, and had lived through as awkward affairs before, and, as Diggs had said, fed and toadied himself back into favor again. Tom Brown at Rugby Ambrose is not a toady at all—he's nothing but a dear. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen I learned to be honest with myself, and that it's a whole lot better to work with your two hands than to be a toady, for the sake of making things easier,—and lots else. Nancy of Paradise Cottage Then I am to infer, Mr. Grahame," Florence replied sarcastically, "that an American is doomed always to remain a toady, and can never hope to attain the distinction of being a full-fledged snob. With Edge Tools He sought on all occasions to keep on the best terms with Mickie, to whom he would toady like a sycophant. The Speech of Monkeys What is the use of a sore if there is no joint and no toady and no tag and not even an eraser. Geography and Plays They are so pleased with themselves, so satisfied with life, such prigs, such toadies. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen And I think it's the most contemptible thing in the world to toady to girls simply because they are rich or fashionable, and may invite you to parties and things that you can never repay. Nancy of Paradise Cottage There are two distinct stages in the process of manufacture, called respectively toadying and snubbing, which must be successfully undergone before the perfected article is obtained. With Edge Tools Mrs. Mosscrop-Smythe was Miss Wangle's toady; but she wrapped her venom in Christian charity, thus making herself the more dangerous of the two. Patricia Brent, Spinster But the great drawback was that I had come forward without leave from the party chiefs, and hence their toadies, lay or clerical, sternly held aloof. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself But, bless your hearts, we "ain't so green," though lots of us of all sorts toady you enough certainly, and try to make you think so. Tom Brown's School Day's "Do you mean that I'm toadying?" asked Alma, her eyes growing wide. Nancy of Paradise Cottage In spite of your youth and enthusiasm, there is in you a vein of inevitable cynicism, for you have had far too much experience of the flatterer and the toady. Ancestors A Novel For Whately's so-called impartiality consisted in being equally biassed against Evangelicals and Tractarians; and both were accused by their unfriends of being a little addicted to the encouragement of flatterers and toadies. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) After ignoring Helen during the past fortnight, she was prepared to toady to her instantly in her new guise as the chosen bride of a millionaire. The Silent Barrier Those are the slobs you have to toady to. Frigid Fracas It is a movement which aims at making all boys brothers and friends, and its end is good citizenship; it is a foe to none save the snob, the sneak, and the toady. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts He was educated at home till he was fourteen, surrounded by cheap tutors, free-and-easy but toadying adjutants, and all the usual regimental and staff set. Fathers and Children What looked like toadying was only profound deference for himself. The Missourian This Mr. O’Rapley is a worthy man who knows a great deal, and although a bit of a toady to his superiors, expresses his opinions pretty freely behind their backs.” The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit “And they say Chip Macklin is doing pretty well, too,” put in Buster, referring to a small lad who had once been a toady to Gus Plum, the Hall bully. Dave Porter and His Double Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune Then the neglected poets and their toadies the critics grow sarcastic about this and think that they have condemned women for materialism when they are themselves blind to its grandeur. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards That toadying, sycophantic, wealth-worshiping Miss West can see no farther than the epidermis! Carmen Ariza I mean to hold my own, and do as I please with my own, and live as I like, and toady no one. Is He Popenjoy? You know she did, you toadying little abomination! The Gorgeous Girl As the last of the Georges declared himself in good-humor, so every toady grinned and every courtly flunkey swore in the Billingsgate of that profanely eloquent period that the actress was a “monstrous fine woman.” The Strollers They all toadied to her and she kept them excited—alarmed, perhaps; angry, oh yes; but never bored. In a Little Town With him were a number of his personal toadies, among them Baron Fredericks, the Court Minister, said to have been responsible for most of the evil influences during past years. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources It bored him, and he was no toady to waste his time fawning upon possible patrons. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History “We need another Saladin to-day,––a Saladin of the Idea, who will wage a crusade, not against Christianity or Mohammedanism, but against those Tataric usurpers who are now toadying to both.” The Book of Khalid "Then, do you want to be under the noses of the teachers, and toadying to them all the time?" cried Helen. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery Emma was a heartless wretch, who had insulted a faithful lover because he would not become as abject a toady to the hateful East as she was. In a Little Town But his toadies were about him, he had long ruled the roast, to retreat went against the grain; while to suppose that the man had the least chance against Lemoine was absurd. The Wild Geese He's well off; he don't require, bless you, to keep people in good temper, and toady to 'em, like most do. Phoebe, Junior Nothing is so short-lived as a good uniform; it varies with the taste of a commander-in-chief, or a commander-in-chief's toady; or the fancy of some royal favourite. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Miss Bey was said to favour Beth by some; Beth was said to toady Bey by others; the truth being that they had taken to each other from the first, and continued friends. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius A petty knave, a toady and buffoon, of fairly good, though undeveloped, intelligence, he was, above all, a moneylender, who grew bolder with growing prosperity. The Brothers Karamazov Bribes largely contribute towards filling the coffers of Government officials, from toadies down to unfortunate sufferers. In the Tail of the Peacock It was made up of lesser lights of like tastes and ambitions, who toadied to and imitated the tyrant simply to avoid the unpleasant necessities which the alternative involved. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 The tutor approved of his ideas and toadied to him, supposing that this gentleman possessed influence over his former pupil, whose man of business he was anxious to become. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man He was a toady to a man of immense wealth—a clever medical man who, by reason of his callous unscrupulousness, was a dealer in Death in its most insidious and least-looked-for form. The Stretton Street Affair But by the next day, or the day following, toady would be back at the foot of the bulkhead stairs again. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine "To get on the team, one must learn to toady," she said. Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life Let them; let them toady and cringe to their precious idols, till they bring this noble old place down about their ears. Tom Brown at Oxford The fact that we don't toady to all these rich men is seen in the records, which show during the year over two hundred men suspended for failure to meet the Standard requirements. The High Calling "He ought to be served as he served the captain," said Fletcher, who disliked Graham, and had always been a toady to Captain Stockton. In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia This time the old lady seized the tongs herself, and marched out into the yard, holding toady with no gentle pinch on his rotund body. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine It was not part of her bargain that she should toady an old man who had never shown any special regard for her. The Bertrams Gentlemen-commoners have a little better chance, though not much, and seem to me to be worse than the tufts, and to furnish most of their toadies. Tom Brown at Oxford Paul had a perfect horror of money-loving, of soft and toadying habits, of the worship of style and society, and nonsense of high life generally. The High Calling I saw the toady little villain sneak off. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Only a few toadies would act toward him as though he was a world's wonder, on account of his wealth. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 It was Mrs. Garded's great sin, in Miss Ruff's eye, that she toadied Lady Ruth to such an extent as to be generally willing to play with her. The Bertrams We are as abject toadies as any people on earth—more so than any European people of similar civilization. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 As for her tart retorts, terrifying to bores and toadies, they only amused him. William Pitt and the Great War Riches and rich people were the commonest subject of his sneers, yet he lost no opportunity of toadying a profitable connection, and was always supposed to be on the look-out for some heiress. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 We had a dear little toady in the garden, and when I talked to him he winked. Little Prudy It was whispered that Mr. Panet had incurred the Governor's displeasure, and that all the toadies would vote against him. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 He was poor, and he could not be a toady: these were two unpardonable sins; and he, a true man, moved like an angel among a set of inferior beings. St. Winifred's, or The World of School He also accused him of throwing over the fair promises that marked his early career, of advertising for enemies abroad, while at home he toadied to the Court. William Pitt and the Great War And she wouldn’t be if she didn’t toady so to Grace.” A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall This tendency had earned for her the reputation of "toady" by those who did not understand her, or were inclined to judge from the surface. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's The effect of such an insult to a Sovereign the object of her people's respect and love will, we imagine, be different from what the "Times" and its toadies anticipate. The History of "Punch" It is time for intelligent men to tire of all this burlesque of politics and this solemn joke of calling it “great statesmanship,” that is breeding these ungainly toadies—squat and warty. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 Then Rodgers will lay down his Daily News and sneer, "What has aggravated the toadies of the Dukes to-day?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 Round such a man who was good-natured and philanthropic would gather flatterers and toadies; hence the suggestion to found a club with his own name and “button.” Pickwickian Studies She had become a self-acknowledged toady, a spineless sycophant, and for what? The Fighting Shepherdess As usual, however, ... its toadies are active and noisy.... The History of "Punch" He referred to one of the younger boys, Henry Stowell by name, a lad who was a good deal of a sneak and who in time past had been a toady to Brown and Martell. The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine But what if the toady be sent with us? The Rival Crusoes Pickwick was taking three of his own special “creatures” with him—Winkle, to whom he had been appointed governor; Snodgrass, who was his ward; and Tupman, who was his butt and toady. Pickwickian Studies After a time these "toadies" were disappointed in the daughter of the "sugar king." Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace "Jenkins," the toady, and "Lickspittleoff," his "Russian editor," were grand sport in the office, and their example was followed—not a little to their disgust—by the "Great Gun" and other papers. The History of "Punch" It is the character of a young man—Tom Musgrave by name—a clever and good-natured toady, with rather more attractive qualities than usually fall to the lot of the members of that fraternity. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record I understand him now better than I did, but I have more reason to blame myself for having been toadied by such a man, than to find fault with him for paying court to me.” The Rival Crusoes This was toadying to the boys, whom he feared. Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student When an opportunity offered the other day to recognize the new Republic of Brazil, the toadies at Washington equivocated and postponed. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 "Everybody in this school seems to toady to them." The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall There is no such coward as the woman who toadies Society because she has outraged Society. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida "I guess they got you up here simply to make you toady to them." The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods "Poodles," said the judge, turning to the lank toady, "stand up." Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student No one could scoff so loudly and violently as could Forster, at what is called snobbishness, "toadying the great"; though it was a little weakness of his own, and is indeed of everybody. John Forster It effectually quelled the toady and rendered him innocuous for a considerable time. The Iron Horse Stickler was one of those toadies who worship rank for its own sake. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure Yet Sir Richard was tolerated; nay, courted and toadied, because of his title. Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn Mr. Parasyte, still dripping from his bath, embarked with his toadies. Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student “I don’t much like that young man,” said his lordship to his toady, who followed him up and down the quarter-deck like “the bobtail cur,” looking his master in the face. Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer The “hear, hear,” which burst from the audience at this point might have satisfied even the toady himself! The Iron Horse How they toady captains and conductors, and without murmuring put up with any imposition they please to practise upon them, even unto taking away their lives! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 We only wants to do away with them toady machines, as they wants to do all the work instead of men’s hands, as the Almighty meant, and is in Scripture.” The Carbonels He had sent off his toadies to take our boats away; but he had started them while we were upon Cleaver Island, and before we had laid in our stock of provisions. Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student People of this sort are of course generally cowards and toadies, and in bullying they find the fullest gratification of their craving for power. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life “He-ar, he-ar!” exclaimed a big vulgar man, with an oily fat face and a strong voice, who was a confirmed toady. The Iron Horse It’s toadying; and if there is one thing I detest above anothah, it is—” “I never said I would ‘make up’ to him. A Houseful of Girls He kept open house in town and country, getting laughed at, en parenthèse, by the toadies who spunged upon him; failed; got into “the Gazette;” and?—died of a broken heart. She and I, Volume 1 “And the worse thing about it,” continued Silk, “is that now Wyndham and Riddell are as thick as brothers, and the young toady’s sure to tell him everything.” The Willoughby Captains One or two toadies sidled up and professed a sympathy which was more offensive than the badinage. Roger Ingleton, Minor He loafs about with a toady and calls it friendship. A Dog with a Bad Name “Yes, much better,” answered a toady friend; “you managed it very well, Horn, so you did.” My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life It is true he would quake at times in the majestic company of the heroes of the Sixth Form, but without hanging his head or toadying. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch Even Wibberly, the toady, and Silk, the Welcher, were better men than he was at classics. The Willoughby Captains “It might disgust some of your friends in the Den, but you aren’t obliged to toady to them.” Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton Besides this, young Forrester was neither a prig nor a toady, and devoted himself to no one in particular, so that everybody had the benefit of his good spirits, and enjoyed his pranks impartially. A Dog with a Bad Name But if not Ted's toadies, then who could be wandering about up there? The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain As for Captain Booth, Madam," writes old Richardson to one of his toadies, "Captain Booth has done his business. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 In their prosperity they encouraged toadying and sycophancy. Friendship He squanders his wealth on toadies, dresses his livery servants most gorgeously, and gives his chairmen the most costly exotics to wear in their coats. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Dogs are very much in fashion: together with the fire, flowers, an old aunt, and two toadies, they make up part of the living accompaniments of a genteel salon. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 Brown is said to be the toady of Jones. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings "But I'll mash him, see if I don't," he said to his toadies. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean And yet people's love for Aunt Susan seems so genuine—not as though they were toadying to her for her money. How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl Some sherry, with a pedigree like an Arabian, heightened the flavour of the dish, not interfered with it; as a toady keeps up the conversation which he does not distract. The Young Duke They come sometimes with a companion or two, but prefer to have only their own people with them, or at most a toady or two to keep them in countenance. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy She rules no doubt successfully enough over the servile, over toadies, flunkeys and weaklings or those who have no spirit or love of independence. The American Revolution and the Boer War, An Open Letter to Mr. Charles Francis Adams on His Pamphlet "The Confederacy and the Transvaal" This he did with very bad grace, and a minute later sneaked off with his toady. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean “Position” in New York means a corpulent purse whose strings work as flexibly as the dorsal muscles of a professional toady. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 He was a tuft-hunter and a toady, but he did not know that he was doing amiss in seeking to rise by tuft-hunting and toadying. Can You Forgive Her? He was assailed largely by the men who had toadied to a hostile feeling which he himself had confronted. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Jim Cash was Mo Mercer's right-hand man: in the language of refined society, he was "Mo's toady;" in the language of Hardscrabble, he was "Mo's wheel-horse." The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) There is just one thing on earth that I will toady to and that is a fact. The Red Conspiracy And this kind of toady has an exquisite flair for your greatness and dignity the moment he becomes quite sure of your pecuniary willingness to back both. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 Grindley knew that he had a better intellect than Maxwell; and yet he allowed Maxwell to snub him, and he toadied Maxwell in return. Can You Forgive Her? Superficial, conceited, sadly lacking in spirituality and refinement, a cruel enemy, a toady to titles, a blind partisan of the Liberal party,—that is her picture in shadow. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. The toadying, the servile representatives of the race, the politicians, the dependent ones—all must be passed by and the people found. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro They toadied to foreign opinion, and dared not stand up for America abroad; while at home nothing American was ever to be criticised. The Story of Cooperstown He listened to people, but how often have I heard him say: "He is no good; he is a toady." In the World War I don't call that tuft-hunting, and it does not necessitate toadying. Can You Forgive Her? The point is—they haven't given me time to get a Government expert up here; and this fellow is evidently a toady for Moyese. The Freebooters of the Wilderness Glorious days were those for the penniless, halcyon days for the toady and the sycophant. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 He never browbeats any one, and never toadies any one. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Swift was a toady at heart, and used Stella vilely for the sake of that hussy Vanessa. Adventures in Criticism Little thing, when you know Ted Slavin and a bunch of his toadies came up here to get all the glory they could out of this business! The Banner Boy Scouts Or, The Struggle for Leadership The successful women are those who know how to toady in the right way and not obviously. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" His will gives us some insight into the toadying character of the man. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Poor Mr. Logger is called a toady because he loves to visit at the comfortable houses of rich great widow ladies, but I am sure they love to have him. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax My dear, there are times when to be merely "polite" is to be a toady! A String of Amber Beads Of course everybody who works toward such an aim provokes the cry from a lot of fools among us who accuse him of toadying to the English and of "accepting the conventional English conclusion." The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II "Oh, I'm not one of that supercilious breed of Americans which toadies to an alleged European culture by finding fault with his own people," he hastened to assure her. The Pride of Palomar Thus on one occasion an Irish toady invited him to dinner: the duke talked of his wardrobe, then sadly defective; what suit should he wear? The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 At one period, when he was becoming an ardent Radical, an obsequious toady said:— 'You'll become a second Marat.' The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent When I say Augustus Myrtle sought only the intimacy of the rich and well bred, you must not suppose he was a toady, or practised obsequiously. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy "Don't you know Quincey Hooper? the correspondent of the Philadelphia Roll-Call—a cur who toadies every Englishman he meets, and at the same time sneers at everything English in his wretched Philadelphia rag." Prince Fortunatus Never more will the South come back to be served and toadied to by them as of old; never more will they receive contemptuous patronage and dishonorable honors. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy The biggest thing I've had against him was not his knifing me but his apparent toadying to the rich and influential. Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular And thus they went on, relinquishing Fagerolles, whom they reproached for toadying the newspapers, for allying himself with their enemies and wheedling sexagenarian baronesses, to fall upon Claude, who now became the great culprit. His Masterpiece The discomfiture of the toady may be easily imagined; he slunk away, nor did he again obtrude his unwanted presence upon Prentiss during his stay. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest He was known to be something of a toady, something of a Sergeant Eitherside, a Vicar of Bray sort of individual. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town He had known Lord Ongar well; and though he did not toady him nor was afraid of him, yet he was gentle and considerate. The Claverings He had no complex of inferiority, nor, for that matter, of superiority; mental attitudes which, applied to social status, breed respectively the toady and the snob. Success A Novel Because he bowed before the genius of Johnson, he was not a toady, nor a fool; at the worst, he was a fanatic, and a not always wise champion. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction There is always to be found men who swell their importance by toadying men of character and eminence. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest "At any rate," he drawled, "Ray and I don't toady to Radley." Tell England A Study in a Generation Todd was exactly of the material which makes a good jackal, though he never became quite Jim Cotton's toady. Acton's Feud A Public School Story How pat it fitted in with the carefully fostered conception, insisted upon in every speech by Marrineal, of the mayor as a Wall Street and Fifth Avenue tool and toady! Success A Novel "I've no aptitude myself for patronizing or toadying, and I don't particularly enjoy being patronized or toadied to." My Friend Prospero Archer filed off with Randolph, who affected to pet him, as some men do foils for their wit, in the person of a toady. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest I give up fifty thousand dollars a year in order to become a slave, with toadies, trappers, lobbyists and favor-seekers as my daily quota of humanity. The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him At the very first blush of my new prosperity, the gentlemen who toadied me in the old, will recollect themselves and toady me again. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 "It isn't fair or decent that a newspaper can hold a man up as a boot-licker and toady, if he isn't one, and yet not be held responsible for it." Success A Novel That is not "toadying," it is being merely polite. Etiquette "I cannot," said he, "be Antipater's friend and his toady at the same time." Plutarch's Lives Volume III. The society must make itself obviously the champion of the national interests as against all self-seekers, speculators and toadies to foreign Powers. The Problem of China But any attempt to converse with him was rendered impossible by Henry Lincoln, who, toady as he was, thought proper to be exceedingly polite to Mary, now that the Seldens noticed her so much. The English Orphans Nobody supposes him to be the mere toady. Marcella "I dare say if I was willing to toady to Mills and Devoe, and tell everybody they're the finest football leaders that ever came down the pike, it would be different," he sneered angrily. Behind the line A story of college life and football A fellow who toadies to the instructors is a pill. Left Tackle Thayer He also speaks of him as a toady; but he was a friend of Johnson, whose detestation of sycophancy was a positive principle. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 Some young men cannot be in your service for three years without becoming hypocrites, toadies, sneaks. The Duel and Other Stories He has got what he wanted, one way or the other, the good-for-nothing toady! The Schoolmaster Again, he must be a man who acts up to his convictions; no toady nor any apologist is desired. History of Kershaw's Brigade "I don't much like that young man," said his lordship to his toady, who followed him up and down the quarter-deck, like "the bob-tail cur," looking his master in the face. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Beware of him to whom he toadies, and whom he calls "my dear sir." Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies Rage, passion unspeakable, a sudden and animal hate of this lick-spittle and supine toady shook him to the heart's core. The Air Trust I mean it is awful how many of your sort are toadies hanging about rich men. The Schoolmaster "Holmes will make trouble for any one who doesn't toady to him," thought Captain Cartwright moodily. Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche No more prostration; no more baseness; no more ignorance; no more human beasts of burden; no more courtiers; no more toadies; no more kings; but Light! The Man Who Laughs 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. Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book He had lived a long lifetime among men who did not care to be toadied, and there was a freedom and ready wit in the old man that pleased everybody who was worth pleasing. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Evelyn, you know very well that is the way to rule and toady papa. Miriam Monfort A Novel With wealth diffused, and caste barriers unknown, a New Zealander, when meeting a stranger, does not feel called upon to act as though in dread of finding in the latter a sponge, toady, or swindler. The Long White Cloud Nobili was constantly assured by those ready flatterers who lived upon him—those toadies who, like a mildew, dim and deface the virtues of the rich—that "he could do what he pleased." The Italians For my friend Smith tells me that that prince was surrounded by toadies, who were ready to praise everything he might do, even to his flapping. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 But the fashionable women took him up, made him a toady and a snob, like the rest of the men of their set. The Second Generation Oh, no! not for worlds—Too proud to work, but not too proud to beg, she depended on her relations, and played toady to all who would. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 Most cringing to the aristocracy, whom he toadies and courts. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook We toady our Indian swells, and they toady their English swells; and I trust, for our sake, that in so doing they have a decided advantage over us. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada "He's rather spunky, the master is," said Ben, who, toady as he was, understood the character of Mr. Stone considerably better than Godfrey did. Only an Irish Boy Andy Burke's Fortunes Not being thought rich, he was saved the annoyance of being haunted by toadies or pestered by parasites. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain The rich boy at school is followed by toadies. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers For his friends and cronies, he had a pompous old schoolmaster, who flattered him, and a toady, his senior, whom he could thrash. Vanity Fair And so he toadied Adam's wife There, in the dew. The Poems of Sidney Lanier He was a sort of blood stockbroker, who did his business by toadying eldest sons and rich young peers and foolish old ladies. The Thirty-Nine Steps A singular impression has grown up that formal politeness and the saying of gracious and complimentary things betray the toady and the hypocrite, both if whom are abhorrent to Americans. The Ways of Men It's grand to be a democrat And toady to the mob, For fear that if you told the truth They'd hunt you from your job. Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses No, I'm not going to toady to her. Laddie; a true blue story He is accused of lavishing his favours only upon the toady and the tuft-hunter, and leaving men of independent mind to the caprice of fortune. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 And you know well that a cringing, toadying manner, which would be thoroughly disgusting to a person of sense, may be extremely agreeable and delightful to a self-conceited idiot. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 So now, fifteen years afterward, although he has many toadies and flatterers, I doubt his having any real friends. In the Valley How was it that she knew nothing of them—except, perhaps, of the few toadies and parasites among them? Sir George Tressady — Volume II From first to last, every man Jack of them has fleeced the poor Canucks unmercifully, and played the toady to England in the most fulsome and sickening manner. Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada It is quite as unfair, too, to accuse people of condition of bestowing all their favours upon toadies, tuft-hunters, and bear-leaders. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 "I have learnt to endure degradation as placidly as you do when you condescend to become the toady and flatterer of richer men than yourself." Run to Earth A Novel She turned to her subordinate, Miss Pillby, the useful drudge who did a little indifferent teaching in English grammar and geography, looked after the younger girls' wardrobes, and toadied the mistress of the house. The Golden Calf The former may give practical recognition of entire equality, to the best of his ability, but it will avail nothing, for the latter will not "toady" to his friend, nor be "patronized" by him. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Eh, I know the man,—'tisn't for nothing that these ten years past I have studied his whims, pampered his vanity, lied to him, toadied him! Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes There was one pair of inveterate toadies in the garrison, Major and Mrs. Guthrie Brimston. The Heavenly Twins He is fond of playing cards, but only with people of a lower standing; they toady him with 'Your Excellency' in every sentence, while he can scold them and find fault to his heart's content. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I There are, it is true, toadies and tuft hunters among boys as among men. By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War Some wag or toady had named it Nob Hill and the inhabitants had complacently accepted the title, although they refrained from putting it on their cards. The Sisters-In-Law From amid his bevy of sycophants and toadies, over the heads of his fashionably garbed guests, he towered, his face red as a beacon, his big bullet head wagging, his great mouth open. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Evadne suffered when she found herself being toadied by these people. The Heavenly Twins Lily toadied to her, to use Bobby Hargrew's expression; nor was Lily alone in this. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause Young Spencer accepted, out of pity for the old man; for he wasn't a toady and he knew his own worth. Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories Is it not much better and finer to be loved and understood by a few honest men than to be heard, criticised, and toadied by thousands of fools?… Jean-Christophe, Volume I It is difficult to arrange, for he does not like toadies, which is so unreasonable, for I know many toadies who are very pleasant. Endymion But of course there were drawbacks, and the thing of all others she disliked most was being toadied. The Heavenly Twins "And you bring two of your toadies along to help you, I suppose," said Jack, unable to keep a sneer from his voice. Jack Ranger's Western Trip Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range His acquaintance among people who knew Mortimer being limited, he had no means of determining the latter's social value except through hearsay and a toadying newspaper or two. The Fighting Chance Very fine boy,—not spirited at all,—not fond of flattery,—not surrounded by toadies,—not fond of drink,—delightful boy! The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family One large shad, imaginably of very old family and independent property, sails at the head of several smaller shad, his flatterers and toadies, who try to look like him. Roman Holidays, and Others Old Miss Tremount had come up from Cornwall for the occasion, accompanied by her poodle, her female toady, and her father confessor. Archibald Malmaison Colonel Waynflete's connexion with the Jacobite cause had, naturally, been kept secret, but she was almost certain that Lord Brocton had discovered it through a certain spy and toady of his, one Major Tixall. The Yeoman Adventurer “Ah! but, you know, unfortunately she has been a governess, and that teaches toadying.” Modern Broods No Indian begum rolling in wealth, no countess mistress of castles and townhouses, ever had such a faithful toady as Hannah Hicks was to her mistress. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family If some of the ladies snubbed her she found others that cultivated her; a few of the humbler women even toadied to her position; a few of the men snuggled up to her picturesque beauty. We Can't Have Everything The sycophant, toady class of Negroes naturally advise the blacks to remain in the South to serve their white neighbors. A Century of Negro Migration The sponge and toady of to-day is not the clumsy fawning wretch you have read about in old-fashioned novels. Phantom Fortune, a Novel There he built his Villa Ambrogiana, which became the seat of an anti-Francesco cabal and the headquarters of an elaborate system of paid spies and toadies. The Tragedies of the Medici Sooner or later he was glad to feed with any one who was toady enough to ask him. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 Behind him he left an active toady who promised to keep watch of matters and to advise him. Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen It was town talk the way he made her toady to his folks, even after he'd been cut off without a cent. Gaslight Sonatas He is not truly known to his people;—they only see him through the pens of press reporters, or the slavish descriptions of toadies and parasites. Temporal Power The other, however, was too great a toady to be too thin skinned. From Wealth to Poverty Added to this, he had got from Eton and Oxford, if not much learning, many a well-born friend, and he was toady enough to cultivate those of better, and to dismiss those of less distinction. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 It was through this toady that Dave received an intimation that his case would be attended to at Washington. Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen I realised, at last, that I was playing the part of a toady in the noble landowner's house by providing him with intellectual amusement. Rudin Rich friends expect you to toady to them; to lick the ground under their feet; to fawn and flatter and lie, and be anything but honest men! Temporal Power She is always ready for jacobinical scoffs at a man for being a lord, if he happens to fail; she is always ready for toadying a lord, if he happens to make a hit. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater This was another expression of his constant teaching that slaves, those who toadied to power, and men without self-respect made possible and fostered tyranny, abuses and disregard of the rights of others. Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot As to the vulgar rabble of trainers and toadies, illiterate, mean-souled creatures, born to obscurity, should we attempt to dissuade them from such pursuits, our labour would be wasted. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 The police force did not want this system interfered with; hence at all times toadied to the rich and influential classes as the makers of law and the creators of public opinion. Great Fortunes from Railroads When we cease toadying to brainless nabobs, and quit imitating them as soon as we get the money, we will be on the road to reformation. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers "Yes," said Cora, who was a terrible toady, but who showed some spirit on this occasion. Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Clarin, from the first to last, All your life you've been a trickster, A smart temporizing toady, A bold flatterer, a trimmer, Since you praise the thoughts of others, And ne'er speak your own. The Wonder-Working Magician My own opinion is that, of the two parties, the toadies are more to blame, and have only themselves to thank for their patron's insolence. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 Gainsborough was never a tuft-hunter: he toadied to no man, and his swinging independence refused to see any special difference between himself and the sleek, titled nobility. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists Steele was no more of a toady to the millionaire than most men would be; but a request of Randolph Schuyler's was not to be thoughtlessly refused, so Steele acquiesced. Vicky Van We are mighty fond of noblemen to Washington, and toady them first-rate. Nature and Human Nature "And of Mumps, the fellow who used to be his toady?" The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine Long may you live to enjoy your wealth,— and your joke at the youngsters' expense; many a toady may you send hither before your own time comes! Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 I do not think that I ever toadied any one, or that I have acquired the character of a tuft-hunter. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope "What was that you threw on their boat?" demanded Baxter, turning to his toady. The Rover Boys on the Ocean Or, a chase for a fortune We shall likewise meet Dan Baxter and his toady Mumps, and learn much concerning a thrilling chase on the ocean and its happy results. The Rover Boys at School That was a humour of his which all his toadies and sycophants tried to indulge. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca "You might spoil his appetite for dinner," said Bates, who was rather a toady to Jim. Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell. Hyperion "Yes—if we don't have any trip-up in the matter," answered the toady, with a doubtful shake of his head. The Rover Boys on the Ocean Or, a chase for a fortune The same can be said, to a certain degree, of the bully Dan Baxter, and his toady, the sneak, commonly known as "Mumps." The Rover Boys at School Where other girls would whine and toady to your face, and be sly and catlike behind your back, she'd look you in the eyes and say all she meant point-blank. Without a Home "Of course he is!" chimed in the toady. Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck I have no patience with the pretensions of would-be poets who contrive by toadying and underground influences to get their volumes placed on every drawing-room table. The Way We Live Now To the credit of the toady let it be said that he was heartily sick of the affair and wished he had never entered into it. The Rover Boys on the Ocean Or, a chase for a fortune "Not because he ran against me, but because he was Baxter's toady and is a regular sneak." The Rover Boys at School I think he's a funny sort of parson altogether,"—said Cicely meditatively—"He doesn't beg, borrow or steal,—he isn't a toady, he isn't a hypocrite, and he speaks his mind. God's Good Man He made an incident of this, and looked round the table for sympathy, and obtained it, especially from such as were toadies. It Is Never Too Late to Mend I stand before the electors of Westminster as a man of business, not as a courtier,—as a man who understands commercial enterprise, not as one of the Prince's toadies. The Way We Live Now "I don't believe you've got any weapon," came from Mumps, in a voice that the toady tried in vain to steady. The Rover Boys on the Ocean Or, a chase for a fortune |
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