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"Toady" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... purser in the navy: a man who, by dint of the grossest flattery and numerous little attentions, had so completely ingratiated himself with his patron, that he had become as necessary an appendage to the travelling equipage, as the portmanteau or the valet-de-chambre. This despicable toady was his lordship's double; he was a living type of the Gnatho of Terence; and I never saw him without remembering the passage that ends "si negat id quoque nego." Black was white, and white was black with toady, if his lordship pleased; ...
— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat |
Words linked to "Toady" : fawner, bootlicker, curry favor, flatterer, blandish, groveller, court favor, lackey, curry favour, groveler, apple polisher, flatter, goody-goody, court favour, truckler, adulator |
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