as in grovelling
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as in fawning
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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
Adjective
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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
Noun
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TikTok's masterclass in sycophancy is an excellent example of what dealmaking in the Trump era looks like in practice.—
Felix Salmon,
Axios,
21 Jan. 2025
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Their approach vacillates between resentful disdain or pandering sycophancy, both of which continually backfire on them.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Their allies were sycophantic, and their natural opponents—especially the French—were submissive.—
Martin Sandbu,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2017
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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
Noun
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Visiting a mosque is not unlike visiting a cathedral, a synagogue, or any other place of worship.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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For more information call 219-464-1443 or text 833-458-8611. To submit a worship brief, email cnance@post-trib.com.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
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The couple can't get enough of their cute pups, Jesse and Fable, and now have one more way to showcase their adoration in addition to posting paw-fect selfies to social media — and that's with custom sweaters featuring pictures of their dogs on them!—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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Betty White's sweet, ever-cheery Rose — a role that snagged her an Emmy Award in 1986 — may not have all the zingers on The Golden Girls, but her rants and tangents draw priceless looks from her housemates and adoration from viewers.—
Margaret Lyons,
EW.com,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
Noun
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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
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People begin drifting to certain games or consoles, staring intently at a wall of idolatry.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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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
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Entertainment Weekly has your exclusive look at the latest trailer (above), which reveals for the first time that Josh's girlfriend Iris (Heretic's Sophie Thatcher) is an android designed to be the perfect, subservient partner.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Toadying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toadying. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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