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toadied
past simple and past participle oftoady
toady
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈtəʊ.di/ us /ˈtoʊ.di/
to praise and be artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them:
She was always toadying to the boss.
She imagined him in his gallery, toadying to his rich clients.
Synonym
crawl(TRY TO PLEASE)UKinformaldisapproving
He was unused to people not toadying to him.
They are all grimly obsequious, like boys toadying to teachers.
He spent his holiday toadying up to rich relatives on Martha's Vineyard.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
flummery
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
massage someone's egoidiom
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
sycophantic
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
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