Flatter with the intention of getting something.
Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.
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Examples for "toady"
Examples for "toady"
1The countess here does toady you, and so do the young ladies.
2Shit you might have been, evil-toady Goliathlackey shit you most definitely weren't.
3I think he is a toady; a kind of German Boswell.
4Dear Madam, this is to cancel my subscription because of that Brit-loving toady.
5Guards in scarlet flanked the shadow; a Chagrian toady cringed nearby.
1Some admirer-someroyal sycophant from the Continent-musthave given it to him.
2He became as full of smiles and capers as the meanest sycophant.
3Shakespeare was a sycophant, a flunkey if you will, but nothing worse.
4The farmer spirit is almost the same as the sycophant spirit.
5He bowed and smiled-thesmile of a courtier and sycophant- asmileI hated.
1It's all thanks to the lickspittle senators whom he has appointed too.
2The promise of gold had turned the Oldtowner into a shameless lickspittle.
3I've found you out and know you thoroughly, you mean, whining lickspittle!
4Damned if he'd risk his life for the king's lickspittle vampire.
5An entire political class played lickspittle to American neoimperialism.
1I'm not about to announce she was a bootlicker.
2The self-important little bootlicker with the bowl cut.
3A bootlicker! I'm not a snob!
5I knew you were stupid and silly and a fool but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker.
1And, he thought, he was lining up at the head of ten thousand generations of ass-kissers.
2"You're a good ass-kisser, too."
1A few brown-nosers now considered it safe to approach.
2She was one of the leading backbench brown-nosers of Enda Kenny at the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party.
3"You're not impressing anyone, ya bloody brown-nosers!" Reggie shouted after them as he reclined on a mound of dirt and lit a roll-up.
1Every TFNG walked into NASA a slavishly loyal subject of King George, and we competed in pathetic attempts to brown-nose him.
2'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
3When Randolph was finally gone, Carter said: "If I swear I'm not brown-nosing, can I tell you something?"
4'Are you gonna tell Al we did to Jezzibella what they did to Brown-nose Bernhard?'
5Aech must have thought I was brown-nosing, because she snickered throughout my stammering monologue, but Og was very cool about it.
Translations for brown-nose