Ingratiate vs Toady - What's the difference?
ingratiate | toady |
(reflexive) To bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her.
* 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 15:
* 1903 , , The Way of All Flesh , ch. 58:
* 2007 July 9, , "
To recommend; to render easy or agreeable.
* , "Sermon XIII" in Miscellaneous Theological Works of Henry Hammond, Volume 3 (1850 edition),
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 ingratiate and toady
is that ingratiate is (reflexive) to bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please him or her while toady is to behave like a toady (to someone).As a noun toady is
a sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage.ingratiate
English
Verb
- [H]e considered this offering an homage to his merits, and an attempt on the part of the heiress to ingratiate herself into his priceless affections.
- [H]e would pat the children on the head when he saw them on the stairs, and ingratiate himself with them as far as he dared.
Why Maliki Is Still Around," Time (retrieved 26 May 2014):
- He ingratiated himself with the Kurdish bloc when he stood up to aggressive Turkish rhetoric about the Kurdish border in May.
p. 283 (Google preview):
- What difficulty would it [the love of Christ] not ingratiate to us?
toady
English
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)