What is "toadied"

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.