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toadyingverbpresent participle of toady to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superiora satirical novel about an amoral go-getter who toadies his way to the top of the corporate ladder apple-polishing, bootlicking, fawning, fussing, kowtowing, sucking (up), truckling drooling, gushing, slavering, slobberingendearing, ingratiatingcourting, wooingadulating, idolizing, worshipping(also worshiping)blandishing, cajoling, coaxing, flattering, overpraising, soft-soapingcowering, cringing, groveling(or grovelling)abasing, debasing, demeaningdeferring, submitting, yielding currying favor, kissing up to despising, disdaining, scorninggibing(or jibing), jeering, scoffingbraving, challenging, defying |