I grow weary of your delays and your toadying.

One of the attractive things about Wolff as a writer is how withering he can be in assessing himself, his own botched predictions, his spineless toadying.

The most recent toadying is an effort to block Mayor Michael Bloomberg's inventive sting operation against illegal guns flooding New York.

Under its PBS-ready gloss, this movie coolly eviscerates a world of snobs, fortune hunters and their toadying, sometimes cruelly exploited servants.

Mike Deaver's book - with all its toadying and the last-minute cuts to avoid offense - makes clear that Nancy Reagan effectively manipulated the President and his staff to achieve what she thought was best.

Her most shameful recollection is of her 5-year-old self asking to sit on his lap: "I can still feel the withering contempt of his look and how richly I deserved it. . . . It was an act of purest toadying.

Despite (or perhaps because of) his constant toadying, Melchett views Darling with a great deal of contempt, and although claiming to regard him as a son, takes pains to point out that he's certainly not a favorite, but rather a "sort of spotty, illegitimate sprog that no one really likes".

She was not the toady he'd thought her to be.

The toadies started to move back from the doors, but not quickly enough.

Now they were regarded as toadies of a foreign king.

Everyone was a toady, one way or another, doing what someone else ordered them to do.

He may play the toady for a place at table here, but he's a very good physician.

Get this out into the public domain before our government can play toady.

His toadies are calling for votes on just about anything that comes up.

He and Toady often argue which results in them falling out.

He turned to the toady who had whispered in his ear.

Women, friends, and toadies were with them, enjoying the evening.

Makes me think all gods must be toadies and servants.

The government should be a model employer, not a toady to private sector interest.

For once he was alone, without the crowd of toadies that usually surrounded him.

I've told you how they all toady to her.

"How do you convince someone that you're not a toady for the public employees union?"

A better friend than any toady could have been.

"Does thee ask if I play the toady, up here where there's no one to hear us but them?"

"This was the part of being a toady that hurt the most.

It was getting clear in my mind then that I would have to get rid of these soft toadies.

"Not everybody is a total toady of the administration."

He also let the toady get a glimpse of his Remington.

We could live in the garden of Eden if ever this was acknowledged by the toadies.

His career as a high-priced toady would never land him in the history books, but this marriage could.

You'd think that being fraudulent toadies would at least make these meetings quick.

But when its time for voting he is someone else, a Wall Street toady.

Even I will toady a little if it's in a good enough cause.

Nations in other parts of the world already toady to him and his power.

Did you ever in your life see him toady or fawn?

A little while ago you would have scorned the thought of toadying to him.

She was amazed and embarrassed by the number of people who tried to toady to her.

They'd evidently reached the captain through someone who toadied to him.

"There was some of that, yeah, toadying up to the big guy.

It is already bad enough to have to toady to the snobs on top.

Granted, toadying can be a useful skill in most lines of work.

It was not toadying or submissive, but that of an equal.

"Why conservatives should toady to these storm troopers is beyond me."

The Prince's eyes flashed, he was unused to people not toadying to him.

As a major of the Household he was a power to be toadied to and fawned upon.

Teacher spends much of his career toadying to Head.

When it comes to toadying up to rich campaign contributors, neither party is guilt free.

For once in my life I've got to toady to somebody, Andy thought.

He says he did not want to "toady" to architects.

Most of our current Arab allies toadied to him or stuffed his treasury with money.

Phil then announced that Sanders had "toadied up to the extremists."

At the same time, he spends a lot of time toadying to Sandra.

Best to toady to them, look out for them and to put up with their obnoxious ways.

In painting royalty, he achieved effects of great brilliance but did not toady.

He must also be so certain of his own eventual recovery that he need no longer toady to me.

"Some of the slaves-the ones who toady up- get mad at you."

W. gets to toady to the right wing while proclaiming his moderation.