How to Use toady in a Sentence

toady

noun

• She's a real toady to the boss.
• After years of being called a Trump toady, the praise must have felt good.
  — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 6 Feb. 2022
• Polls show Newsom could be recalled in less than three weeks and a Trump toady installed in his place.
  — Seth Liss, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• Her toadies and allies of convenience are unsure where the power lies now, who best to suck up to.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2016
• But Stormy Daniels won’t allow herself to be turned into a secret, an object, a lying toady, or a golf joke.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 14 Mar. 2018
• Farrow’s walking ego Gaston bursts into the theater from the lobby, trailed as ever by his pal — some would say toady — Lefou (Michael Parisi).
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 18 July 2019
• FBI agents are reportedly enraged by the firing and concerned that a Trump toady will be appointed to lead them.
  — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 10 May 2017
• People like to be recognized for their success, not embarrassed by a toady.
  — Monica Drake, Longreads, 19 Oct. 2017
• And then there was Art Carney, doing a vaudeville-era slapstick routine for some Empire toadies.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
• To liken patients to cowering toadies is to patronize them.
  — Kevin Canfield, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• After taking office, Trump installed campaign toadies to monitor at least 16 key departments and report heretics to a White House deputy chief of staff.
  — John B. Judis, New Republic, 16 June 2017
• Nicholas Hoult, playing the titular toady Renfield in a new movie about Dracula’s assistant, bemoans his lot in life and dreams of breaking free of his dark master in a new trailer for Renfield.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
• Some saw her as a toady who was given access because of her reputation for going easy on interviewees.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• Set in 1887, the movie finds Dench's Queen Victoria bent and wizened, an octogenarian who has outlived most of her contemporaries and has little use for the toadies around her.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 22 Sep. 2017
• Trump’s main barrier to replacing Sessions is the difficulty of winning Senate confirmation for the kind of toady Trump craves.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 11 June 2018
• Nowadays Wolf’s posts generate pages of comments denouncing him as a fascist and the toady of an authoritarian president-- or praising him as a loyal Trump soldier.
  — Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
• Unlike other directorate heads, the majority of whom could be sorted in a Venn diagram between toady and sadist with broad overlap, Ivan was inherently good-natured.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 May 2021
• Much of the comedy comes from watching Stalin’s toadies jockey for power in his absence, but the film really connects as a strange — and yet somehow amusing — glimpse of how fear penetrates a totalitarian society down to the bone.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
• But if Rosenstein doesn’t give in to political pressure, there’s always the possibility of simply replacing him with a Trump toady who would gladly dispatch the special counsel — a path the president has already considered.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Mar. 2018
• One of those systems is legitimate media, which Trump constantly berates, along with his toadies like Kari Lake, the unsuccessful candidate for Arizona governor, who attacks any media that doesn’t spout the company line.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2023
• Scott also has a television ad depicting Nelson as a toady of party bosses for his history of voting for all Democratic presidents’ judicial candidates.
  — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 July 2018
• Some see him as a courageous reformer committed to a more democratic socialist vision, while others depict him as a toady who needlessly compromised the livelihoods of millions of people by subjecting them to a traumatic economic transition.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
• She's a real toady to the boss.
• After years of being called a Trump toady, the praise must have felt good.
  — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 6 Feb. 2022
• Polls show Newsom could be recalled in less than three weeks and a Trump toady installed in his place.
  — Seth Liss, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• Her toadies and allies of convenience are unsure where the power lies now, who best to suck up to.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2016
• But Stormy Daniels won’t allow herself to be turned into a secret, an object, a lying toady, or a golf joke.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 14 Mar. 2018
• Farrow’s walking ego Gaston bursts into the theater from the lobby, trailed as ever by his pal — some would say toady — Lefou (Michael Parisi).
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 18 July 2019
• FBI agents are reportedly enraged by the firing and concerned that a Trump toady will be appointed to lead them.
  — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 10 May 2017
• People like to be recognized for their success, not embarrassed by a toady.
  — Monica Drake, Longreads, 19 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024