How to Use toady in a Sentence

toady

noun
  • She's a real toady to the boss.
  • And his toadies that go along with him are -- are subscribing to that.
    — ABC News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • The high toady will be 61 degrees and the low will be 39 degrees.
    — Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Her toadies and allies of convenience are unsure where the power lies now, who best to suck up to.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2016
  • People like to be recognized for their success, not embarrassed by a toady.
    — Monica Drake, Longreads, 19 Oct. 2017
  • In the past, Newsom denounced judges who ruled against them as toadies of the firearms industry.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Cowboys found a toady to cede to Jerry Jones’ every demand.
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 27 Jan. 2025
  • His assessment is based not on the slack-jawed idolatry of elite-media toadies, but on sources nobody else thought to ring up and poke.
    — Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • But Stormy Daniels won’t allow herself to be turned into a secret, an object, a lying toady, or a golf joke.
    — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 14 Mar. 2018
  • This won’t end well, especially in a no-guardrails administration staffed by a how-high team of enablers and toadies.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Some saw her as a toady who was given access because of her reputation for going easy on interviewees.
    — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The British put down the rebellion and my ancestor, whom Indians today might call a toady, helped.
    — Madhur Jaffrey, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024
  • And today’s toadies, worshipers and opportunists may have some explaining to do to their descendants.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • As of this writing, tens of thousands of Americans in government roles have already been fired by Elon’s tech toadies.
    — Kara Swisher, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2025
  • And then there was Art Carney, doing a vaudeville-era slapstick routine for some Empire toadies.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
  • This draft meeting resembled a bully in the high school cafeteria seeking toadies — any veneer of scouting objectivity was shed.
    — Michael Hurley, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Naturally his reliable Republican toadies lined up to support him.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Nowadays Wolf’s posts generate pages of comments denouncing him as a fascist and the toady of an authoritarian president-- or praising him as a loyal Trump soldier.
    — Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Courtesy of Lucasfilm On an isolated farm at the outer reaches of a fascist empire, a mid-level government toady interrogates his victims.
    — Jake Kleinman, Wired News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Unlike other directorate heads, the majority of whom could be sorted in a Venn diagram between toady and sadist with broad overlap, Ivan was inherently good-natured.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 May 2021
  • Rarely has a president been surrounded by such an array of toadies and lickspittles, operating beyond their competence in an atmosphere of organizational chaos.
    — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Most Americans don’t get it either, or why previous senators backing Ukraine have become toadies to Trump’s outrageous claims against the Ukrainians.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Nicholas Hoult, playing the titular toady Renfield in a new movie about Dracula’s assistant, bemoans his lot in life and dreams of breaking free of his dark master in a new trailer for Renfield.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Scott also has a television ad depicting Nelson as a toady of party bosses for his history of voting for all Democratic presidents’ judicial candidates.
    — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 July 2018
  • Much of the comedy comes from watching Stalin’s toadies jockey for power in his absence, but the film really connects as a strange — and yet somehow amusing — glimpse of how fear penetrates a totalitarian society down to the bone.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Some see him as a courageous reformer committed to a more democratic socialist vision, while others depict him as a toady who needlessly compromised the livelihoods of millions of people by subjecting them to a traumatic economic transition.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Set in 1887, the movie finds Dench's Queen Victoria bent and wizened, an octogenarian who has outlived most of her contemporaries and has little use for the toadies around her.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 22 Sep. 2017
  • His embrace of Trump‘s endorsement and refusal to admit that Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 presidential election expose him as a toady.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • Like the most treacherous toadies from literature — Iago, Wormtongue, Tywin Lannister — Miller managed to shove aside rivals to latch onto his master’s ear and guide him toward more evil.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
  • One of those systems is legitimate media, which Trump constantly berates, along with his toadies like Kari Lake, the unsuccessful candidate for Arizona governor, who attacks any media that doesn’t spout the company line.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2023

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