'toady' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who obediently does whatever a more powerful person wants, often in exchange for favors. For example, "The manager's toady followed every order without question."
He knew him as a scoundrel, a liar, a cheat, a thief, a coward and, not least, a toady, ever able to make himself shine in the eyes of his braying superiors.
Consequently, however, the MCB looks to some like a toady of the government.The authorities in Paris have, if anything, gone even further than those in London in trying to co-opt and co-operate with the mainstream of their country's Muslim community.
Even mutual funds, says Mr Patterson, which usually toady up to firms to protect corporate pension-fund business, have been voting against management on executive-pay issues this year.Exhibit A is just the sort of severance arrangement that Mr Garnier's lawyers extracted from GSK's supine board.
Mr Gonzales was a known toady to Bush from way back.
Not only do several big member states that are keen to toady up to China oppose any investigation, so too do the actual European telecoms firms that are supposedly harmed by Chinese subsidies.
Two things spring to mind: One, Cameron obviously has no need to stick his nose in, and his decision to plough ahead anyway implies a desire to toady up to Wills and Kate.
How speedily did toady journalists in Washington and New York patch up this brutal man's image.
Her assimilation of the Gypsy point of view becomes perhaps too thorough when she tells of a flagrant case of shoplifting — more than eight hundred dollars' worth of goods — thwarted by "a fellow-customer, an unidentified toady who should rot in hell".
When the curtain comes up, Raphelson's art dealer, a half-toady half-tyrant called Trevor Fabricant (the harassed and hilarious Denis O'Hare), is putting a full-court press on his client to have a New York retrospective.
Already, the Kosovo Albanians' moderate leader, Ibrahim Rugova, looks in danger of being discredited as a western toady because he agreed to a brief, abortive round of talks with Mr Milosevic.
There were also Neighbours-themed cocktails: Slippery Bishop (Sambucca and Baileys), Erinsborough Ice Tea (vodka, gin, white rum, Cointreau, lemon juice and cola), Pina KarumAda (rum, pineapple juice and cocunut cream), Toady Wallbanger (vodka, galliano and orange juice), and Hot Taddy (whisky, water and lemon juice).
