| How could his own condition be made better when, in order to gain status and power, he would have to toady to the king? |
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| Paris himself turns out to be an obsequious toady in Domitian's heady presence. |
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| Jack is thick with Joxer, his fellow toper and toady, an even worse parasite than the Captain off whom he scrounges. |
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| Yesterday I only used four packets, so toady I used the other three and mixed the sauce plus chilli sauce and the beans from today's rat pack. |
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| She would show Lord William that she was not about to turn into a weepy-faced toady over him. |
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| The central development of Cromwell from a timid toady to a towering tyrant is well depicted. |
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| He was a shameless toady to those above him and a vicious bully to those below him. |
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| He may have signed off on the idea of creating a youth brigade, and put a gold star in the dossier of the sweating toady who proposed the idea. |
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| I admit he can be fearfully blunt at times, but surely that's better than being a toady? |
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| Should I make some amusing reference to a recent out-of-school meeting, or will the teacher think I'm a toady? |
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| He was grinning with the expectant air of an ambitious toady as he balanced on his tiptoes. |
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| Conversely, but equally false, is the image of a toady who curries favor from higher-ups or someone who twists selfsacrifice into a self-serving art form. |
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| Mr. Imperioli's Rosencrantz is a stiff, frightened toady to Mr. Giamatti's cool, wily fixer. |
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| The Chief Coroner could be simply a toady for the department. |
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| Far from being robust and uninhibited, he wrote, the press was often a toady to government and business. |
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| Add to that the fact of multiple-choice examination papers which toady to our natural desire to avoid work. |
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| How speedily did toady journalists in Washington and New York patch up this brutal man's image. |
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| You know, the all too familiar signs of smugness, ingratiating habits, or simply the false earnestness and self-satisfaction associated with a testosterone-powered toady. |
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| Conversely, but equally false, is the image of a toady who curries favor from higher-ups or someone who twists self-sacrifice into a self-serving art form. |
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| Why conservatives should toady to these storm troopers is beyond me. |
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| Traces of the city's development are still visible everywhere toady. |
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| Mr Gonzales was a known toady to Bush from way back. |
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| There is an ever growing choice of destinations toady. These range from Spartan survival fishing breaks to luxury holidays in purpose built centres with heated pools and all the comforts of luxury travel. |
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| Why on earth should politicians have to toady to every lunatic out there. |
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| He knew him as a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward and, not least, a toady, ever able to make himself shine in the eyes of his braying superiors. |
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| Not only do several big member states that are keen to toady up to China oppose any investigation, so too do the actual European telecoms firms that are supposedly harmed by Chinese subsidies. |
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| Two things spring to mind: One, Cameron obviously has no need to stick his nose in, and his decision to plough ahead anyway implies a desire to toady up to Wills and Kate. |
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| The bath is of greatest advantage in these chronic cases, with an earthy complexion and toady skin, if I am allowed thus to express its appearance. |
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