Adulate vs Toady - What's the difference?
adulate | toady |
To flatter effusively
A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.
* 1929, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 61
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
* Charles Dickens
(archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
To behave like a toady (to someone).
As verbs the difference between adulate and toady
is that adulate is to flatter effusively while toady is to behave like a toady (to someone).As a noun toady is
a sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.adulate
English
Verb
(adulat)Derived terms
* adulation * adulator * adulatory ----toady
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Noun
(toadies)- But how could she have helped herself? I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies , the scepticism of the professional poet.
- "Go on, Hiram, show 'em what you can do," urged Luke Fodick, who was a sort of toady to Hiram Shell, the school bully, if ever there was one.
- Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
