Both Uses of
toady
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance, began with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest; he ran to dine at other men's tables, and fastened on them as a toady, yet at his death it appeared that he had a hundred thousand roubles in hard cash.†
Chpt 1 *
- 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.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(toady) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage;
or: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering