toadying 1 of 3

adjective

Definition of toadyingnext
as in grovelling

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toadying

2 of 3

noun

as in fawning

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toadying

3 of 3

verb

present participle of toady
as in fussing
to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior a satirical novel about an amoral go-getter who toadies his way to the top of the corporate ladder

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toadying
  1. obsequious
  2. sycophancy
  3. sycophantic
  4. worship
  5. adoration
  6. servile
  7. idolatry
  8. subservient
Adjective
  • There were cover stories on him and obsequious profiles.
    Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Schulz is obsequious, either chummily laughing along to whatever is being said or clearly waiting for his turn to talk.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of obsequious
Noun
  • A certain amount of sycophancy toward the more bizarre elements of the coalition is also common.
    Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Other tests showed that models can show what’s called a sycophancy bias — the tendency of an LLM to backpedal on a correct answer to please the user.
    Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of sycophancy
Adjective
  • Guillermo has gone from a sycophantic servant, dreaming of the day his master would turn him into a mythical creature of the night, to an out-and-proud vampire hunter who lives alongside his former lieges.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Its members' firm repudiation of the unqualified and clownish Matt Gaetz for attorney general shows that its members can still stiffen their sinews and summon up the courage to curb President-elect Donald Trump's appetite for surrounding himself with sycophantic boobs.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of sycophantic
Noun
  • Our inner landscapes shifted to accommodate new forms of beauty, old forms of worship.
    hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The church, a vital space for many local immigrant families, made the decision to prioritize the safety of its parishioners, as anxiety builds over potential immigration raids in places of worship.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of worship
Noun
  • Jenn Tran is shedding more light on her Dancing with the Stars partnership and adoration for Sasha Farber.
    Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Fux highlights the construction of the diva persona and the dynamic between admiration and adoration.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of adoration
Adjective
  • His co-stars, like Will Ferrell’s savage Mugatu, Owen Wilson’s stoner hottie Hansel, and Nathan Lee Graham’s servile Todd — all so precise and well-defined in the original’s ravelike milieu — are doomed to retrace their old steps here.
    Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • These officials could, in turn, redistribute some of their private goods among their own servile lieutenants, but the monarch retained ultimate power to grant or revoke their privileged status.
    Serhiy Kudelia, Foreign Affairs, 27 Feb. 2014
Definition of servile
Noun
  • But as a Christian, the bigger threat in the U.S. now seems to be Evangelical idolatry—this tendency of many Christians to turn a political candidate into an idol, particularly one who has proven himself so thoroughly unfit as Donald Trump.
    Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
  • People begin drifting to certain games or consoles, staring intently at a wall of idolatry.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
Definition of idolatry
Adjective
  • As an angry teenager who develops a passionate hatred for everything about her life, particularly her stooped, seemingly subservient mother, Inseon runs away to Seoul, falls through a snowbank into a pit, and nearly dies.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The other subservient billionaires in the cartoon include Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Sam Altman of OpenAI, and Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the LA Times.
    The Editors of ARTnews, ARTnews.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of subservient
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