Toady

Definition

toady /'tǝƱdi/ n ( derog ) ကပ္ဖားရပ္ဖား။ ငဖား။ v ( pt, pp toadied ) ~ (to sb) ( derog ) ေဖာ္လံဖားသည္။ toadying to the boss.

Examples

1. ‘Should I make some amusing reference to a recent out-of-school meeting
2. or will the teacher think I'm a toady?’
3. ‘She would show Lord William that she was not about to turn into a weepy-faced toady over him.’
4. ‘‘People think us security guards are just stupid
5. unfeeling corporate toadies
6. but that's not true
7. ’ he said.’
8. ‘This was a man so obviously lying to himself and others - so obviously acting a part - that not even the toadies and sycophants lined beaming along the front row of the hall could have believed a word of it.’
9. ‘He was grinning with the expectant air of an ambitious toady as he balanced on his tiptoes.’
10. ‘Never has America been so thoroughly in the clutches of fawners
11. lap dogs
12. toadies
13. boot lickers
14. lick spittles
15. and Snopses.’
16. ‘The Chief Coroner could be simply a toady for the department.’
17. ‘The central development of Cromwell from a timid toady to a towering tyrant is well depicted.’
18. ‘The principal and her toadies made it seem that our opinions were important and that the reorganisation would not happen if we were dead set against it.’
19. ‘He calls it a ‘parasite’
20. which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on
21. a toady
22. a sycophant.’
23. ‘Conversely
24. but equally false
25. is the image of a toady who curries favor from higher-ups or someone who twists selfsacrifice into a self-serving art form.’
26. ‘Mere subordination is unamusing
27. and we have a vocabulary that allows us to express our disapproval of people whose aim is nothing else but to please - toady
28. creep
29. sycophant
30. etc.
31. are the correlates of the bully.’
32. ‘Others claimed that he had improperly mixed religion and politics and had served as a toady of Prime Minister José María Aznar.’
33. ‘Imagine that you and your neighbours have just elected a diverse group of community activists to your city council and school board
34. tossing out an arrogant clique of corporate toadies in the process.’
35. ‘I admit he can be fearfully blunt at times
36. but surely that's better than being a toady?’
37. ‘Radio stations lend their microphones to these degenerate rappers who start wars on the air that end up affecting all their sycophants
38. toadies and lackeys who want to keep it real.’
39. ‘You know
40. the all too familiar signs of smugness
41. ingratiating habits
42. or simply the false earnestness and self-satisfaction associated with a testosterone-powered toady.’
43. ‘He was a shameless toady to those above him and a vicious bully to those below him.’
44. ‘‘Your little toadies seem a bit pusillanimous
45. ’ she observed laconically
46. curious to see if he was as smart as they said he was.’
47. ‘He may have signed off on the idea of creating a youth brigade
48. and put a gold star in the dossier of the sweating toady who proposed the idea.’