Definition of Toadyish

1. Adjective. Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

Exact synonyms: Bootlicking, Fawning, Obsequious, Sycophantic
Similar to: Insincere
Derivative terms: Obsequiousness, Sycophant

2. Adjective. Attempting to win favor by flattery.
Exact synonyms: Bootlicking, Fawning, Sycophantic
Similar to: Servile
Derivative terms: Sycophant

Definition of Toadyish

1. Adjective. Sycophantic; fawning. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Toadyish

1. characteristic of one that toadies [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toadyish

toadly
toadrush
toads
toads in the hole
toadshade
toadskin
toadskins
toadsticker
toadstickers
toadstone
toadstones
toadstool
toadstools
toadying
toadyish (current term)
toadyism
toadyisms
toast
toast mistress
toast of the town
toast rack
toast racks
toastable
toastcrumb
toasted
toasted shins
toaster
toaster oven
toasterlike

Literary usage of Toadyish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"Let everybody learn the air, or some air that will do, and when a timid hostess or a toadyish host is keeping a whole party waiting for an insolent and ..."

2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1885)
"Nature is always gracious— not to say toadyish — when the queen goes out ; she puts on her best face, but is persistently and impertinently contemptuous of ..."

3. Greek Art on Greek Soil by James Mason Hoppin (1897)
"The Greek, while he idolizes rich travelers, as he supposes all to be who visit Greece, especially Americans, is not toadyish, but preserves an erect and ..."

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