Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
- (childish) Diminutive of toad.
- (archaic) A coarse, rustic woman.
Verbi
- (intransitive, construed with to) To behave like a toady (toward someone).
- (transitive) To behave like a toady toward (someone).
Adjektiivi
Esimerkit
- 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | toadied |
| Imperfekti | toadied |
| Partisiipin preesens | toadying |
| Monikko | toadies |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | toadies |
A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
Illustration by Peter Newell for the poem "The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven" in Fables for the Frivolous, by Guy Wetmore Carryl; in French, the fox says "I admire your beautiful plumage" to the raven
A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
Uriah Heep, from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield, is synonymous with sycophancy
A sycophant who flatters others to gain personal advantage, or an obsequious, servile lackey or minion.
Botticelli's illustration of Dante's Inferno shows insincere flatterers grovelling in excrement in the second pit of the eighth circle.