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Synonyms for toady

one who flatters another excessively

to support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior

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Synonyms for toady

a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

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Ladywood MP Ms Short, following remarks made by Commons Speaker and West Bromwich West MP Betty Boothroyd, accused some of the party's new Westminister intake of "toadying" just as "creepy" Tory backbenchers had done in the last Parliament.
Considering the mess that this lousy socalled government have got us into by toadying to the US and of course the Brussels sprouts in the EU, I think it is a cheek.
Yet again, it's another example of the toadying of this Labour Government to the unelected European bureaucrats in Brussels.
Girls Aloud will be allowed to use the hall to change in on St Patrick's Day, even though the event isn't council sponsored and, as a nationalist event, doesn't have room for flying Union Jacks and toadying to the Queen.
International Development Secretary and Birmingham MP Ms Clare Short yesterday accused some new Labour MPs of "toadying" just as "creepy" Tory backbenchers had done during the last government.
Along the way, each of the state welfare-reform programs he endorsed, as well has his toadying up to business, his retreat from civil-rights enforcement, and his fetish for deficit reduction and downsizing government, exacerbates poverty.
"Gravity and Grace" has had the laudable effect of exposing to public scrutiny both the work of an important generation of artists and the patrician heart of virtually the entire toadying Establishment of art critics working in England today.
ALTHOUGH it would seem toadying to do so, Liverpool FC must be commended for pegging their prices to pounds 10 for adults and pounds 5 for children for their recent Anfield ties in the qualifying rounds of the European Champions League.
The knighthood can't be far away now..for services to quite repulsive toadying.
We're not impressed with that sort of toadying and his apology comes too late.
And he slammed International Development Secretary Clare Short's attack on "toadying" MPs as "silly".
LORRAINE Rogers seems to have attracted a group of toadying sycophants around her, such as M.