Exempel på toadying

• He saw through all the toadying, of course.

• Some saw the decision as shameless political toadying to a greater power.

• An unpleasant regime of bullying and toadying across Whitehall emerged.

• A prime minister can become detached from political realities by a toadying cabinet.

• They all greeted him in the same toadying fashion.

• The press portrayed him as no more than a toadying errand boy.

• His reaction was jealous and toadying at the same time.