Sample Sentences for
toady
(auto-selected)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    So then I put my head out of the window and called to him: 'Good evening, Mulcaster, old sponge and toady, are you lurking among the hobbledehoys?†  (source)
  • •
    There were some of the girls who were of her own sort, who were willing to toady to her and flatter her; and these would carry tales about the rest, and so the furies were unchained in the place.†  (source)
  • •
    "I deal in information," he says to the smarmy, toadying pseudojournalist who "interviews" him.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 4 word variations
  • •
    Within its surface, he did not see his own face but that of a toady-faced goblin with a forelock of black hair and a lipless mouth that stretched from ear to ear.†  (source)
  • •
    I'm a foot from Marcus, my fists hungry for his flesh, when two of his toadies, Thaddius and Julius, grab me from behind, wrenching my arms back.†  (source)
  • •
    that toadying ignoramus!†  (source)
  • •
    She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise, to show that politicians who toadied to the Russians in order to keep the peace would inevitably end up subservient to them in everything.†  (source)
  • •
    But what was funny as heck was Grandpa with that bruised, swelled-up nose, the big knot like a horn on his forehead, the black eyes like a dern raccoon's mask, the scab over one eye like a sword slash on a pirate, the itchy three-day sprouting of gray whiskers — and Miss Love gazing at him like he was Prince Charming come to the costume ball dressed up as a toady frog.†  (source)
  • •
    Halfway to Miami International, comfortably away from the switchboard where Queems or Queems's toadies were known to listen in, Hallorann stopped at a shopping center Laundromat and called United Air Lines.†  (source)
  • •
    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.†  (source)
  • •
    And they stood, under similar orders, at all sorts of elections; and they turned out of their own seats, on the shortest notice and the most unreasonable terms, to let in other men; and they fetched and carried, and toadied and jobbed, and corrupted, and ate heaps of dirt, and were indefatigable in the public service.†  (source)
  • •
    Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.†  (source)
  • •
    I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)