toadyings

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News has just leaked of the loony event — one of scores of usually mundane photo-op toadyings that occupy Washington lawmakers.

Lawmakers Scurry From the Light 2004
Riffrath was a microcosm of English society, from the lower middle class upwards, with all its respectabilities and incompatibilities and disabilities -- its narrownesses and meannesses and snobbishnesses, its gossipings and backbitings and toadyings and snubbings -- delicate little social things of England that foreigners don't understand!

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865
Broon's toadyings in America yesterday were toe-curlingly sycophantic.

Telegraph Blogs 2009