| 词汇 | toadied |
| 释义 | 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. 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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