| Mrs. Bennet, with her crudities and bullying and toadying, had caused the young men to flee in terror. |
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| On the shop floor it more or less meant the proles getting their cards and hapless, toadying management promoted beyond their competence. |
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| By toadying to the royal family of Crim Tartary, she was lady-in-waiting to the young Princess Angelica. |
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| Democracy is not well served by this deliberate polarization of issues, or by toadying to it. |
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| He will win no plaudits for toadying to London and he has no future in Westminster anyway. |
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| He humiliated and cheated the poor peasants, while toadying to landlords and potentates. |
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| How very Scottish not to want to be seen toadying up to someone else's company in public. |
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| After a career spent shamelessly toadying to corporate interests, I will spend my retirement feeding the homeless. |
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| They reckoned it would be quite fatal for their credibility, toadying up to politicians. |
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| Being good at service means that we are servile and toadying and demeans our noble island spirit. |
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| With this easy-to-use device, not available in stores, you can repackage an unobjectionable or toadying remark as an act of verbal courage. |
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| Pushing for direct links amounts to toadying to capitalists intent on exploiting the China market, and risks the future of this nation's workers. |
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| Even by the standards of the Victorians, who had a pretty high tolerance level for toadying, this is slimy stuff. |
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| This is very far from toadying to the all-too-common spirit of making things easy. |
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| He describes the inner workings of the Persian court where fear of and toadying to the king predominated and how that affected the campaign against Greece. |
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| It's a story about jealous and weak leaders toadying up to the current world power to effect the destruction of a source of truth who is troubling their comfort zone. |
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| Instead of toadying up to the oil companies, which think Canada is already doing too much to reduce greenhouse gases, why is the minister not instead listening to those who think that Canada is not doing enough? |
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| Some see this move as yet more evidence of ministers toadying to Mr Murdoch, others as a sensible precaution on Mr Hunt's part. Formally, the issues of phone-hacking and of Sky are separate. |
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| Parliament is back, and with it all the frenzied theatre of democracy the oratory and toadying guff, the plotting and high principle, the MPs stretchered in from their sick beds to avoid defeat. |
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| Even infused with a toadying creepiness, Oswald flourishes as a sympathetic chap, the guy you can't help rooting for. |
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| And Hebba pays the price, when her husband sees fit to exercise his traditional right to chastise the wife who has, in the view of this toadying timeserver, sabotaged his career. |
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| This self-conscious trecentismo recalls the work of Carlo Carra, whose painting was then also typified by an archaizing, toadying flag-waving. |
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