| 词汇 | toady |
| 释义 | toady noun[ C ] disapprovinguk /ˈtəʊ.di/ us /ˈtoʊ.di/ a person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them: 谄媚者，马屁精 Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies. Shostakovich was often seen as a political toady to Stalin. Synonym crawler(TRYING TO PLEASE)UKinformaldisapproving She had her toadies, minor officials in Government offices who ran about putting through little jobs on her behalf. He becomes a prisoner of what his toadies tell him. She caricatures the cowardly toadies whose views changed along with the politics of the times. 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 toadying truckle unctuous 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 toadying truckle unctuous Examples of toadytoady They have only to humour and placate the individuals involved, fawning and toadying appropriately, and all will be well. A common theme was to represent politicians as snakes in the grass or toadies. He maintains that his counsel would be unheeded in the court of any prince, since all princes are obsessed with war and self-aggrandizement and surrounded by toadying counsellors. They have implied that people could become "toadies" and staff could get too friendly with prisoners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is representative and its members are not toadies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If ever there was a running away from facts and a toadying to pressure from the other side, here is an instance of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By their very nature, the people elected as a result of having served the party will be the worst form of toadies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were toadies of the great creatures, adding to their strength and force. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am prepared to be as nice and toady-like as necessary in order to ensure that my constituents and their children get what they deserve. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will remain for local party members to decide whether they want people who toady and toe the line, or whether they want people who are slightly more independent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The back of the pamphlet listed nine men identified as toadies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Don't toady to the rich; don't be arrogant to the poor. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Henchmen in this sense are also sometimes called lackeys, toadies, or mooks (with the latter term more often used for lesser minions of the villain). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He was also, incidentally, a supreme toady, fraudulent scholar and humbug. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He appoints curt relatives and toadies without merit or knowledge to important positions without listening to the voice of the people. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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