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Played up to
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toadied
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [syn: sycophant , crawler , lackey ] v. try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn , truckle , bootlick , kowtow , kotow , suck ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-pasttoady)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Toadying .] To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
Usage examples of toadied.
He visibly toadied to visiting VIPs, and (if reports were accurate) rarely had a kind word for his employees.
At the university Morgan Wendell had done everything to ingratiate himself with older men in power—professors, athletic coaches, fraternity leaders, he had toadied to them all—but no one ever knew what principles he stood for, and on this program he prospered.
Buhler, characteristically, toadied to Heydrich: 'He had only one favour to ask - that the Jewish question in the General Government be solved as rapidly as possible.
He had very little respect for the Proctor Captain, who bullied those beneath him in rank, toadied to those above.