ADJECTIVE
- attempting to win favor by flattery
- attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
How To Use toadyish In A Sentence
- But the government's toadyish diplomacy, which overlooked the key issue affecting its relations with North Korea, led to a delay in resolving the abduction cases and resulted in tragic consequences.
- That angered even his normally toadyish interviewer.
- But I doubt if even the most toadyish East European regime would be willing to accept serious casualties.
- A pilot episode shows a toadyish Palestinian officer watching as a Jewish character machine-guns a group of West Bank children to death and drinks their blood. NY Post: News
- If that sounds toadyish, just take a look at two of its newest titles.
- Total grovelling obeisance to Israel is a speciality, with much contempt for the Palestinians and support for Israel as they eviscerated Gazan children, and a manic scheme of extreme toadyish inventiveness, to attempt to arraign Ahmadinejad before the ICC for 'incitement to genocide' over his non-existent calls to 'wipe Israel off the map'. Dissident Voice
- As the military surges into Afghanistan and Pakistan and Xe Services LLC (formerly known as Blackwater) and the CIA eke into Pakistan and Yemen, the appetites of toadyish liberal analysts demand their daily diet of Republican bogeys. Legitgov
- 'I hardly think,' ... the Minister muttered to himself, practising the toadyish sneer for which he was justly loathed by all right thinking people, and adored by conference delegates ... Gridlock
- Does this reflect some covert biases he might know about at NPR, or just a fund-raiser's toadyish attempt to pull in $5 million? NPR executive caught on camera -- doing what, exactly?
- Plus citing Authorities in the very first sentence just feels so very toadyish.