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Definition of Toadyisms
1. toadyism [n] - See also: toadyism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toadyisms
Literary usage of Toadyisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolitan (1842)
"... and the alternate toadyisms, and scandalous historiettes of Mrs Edgington,
catching at intervals brief snatches of the lively conversation of Melville ..."
2. The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art by John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell (1843)
"They know nothing of this—and of the thousand other toadyisms which are working
in secret. To any one moderately acquainted with contemporary literature, ..."
3. The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art by John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell (1843)
"They know no thing of this — and of the thousand other toadyisms which are working
in secret. To any one moderately acquainted with con temporary literature ..."
4. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Robert Chambers, William Chambers (1848)
"... it must be attributed to their desire for high associations being mixed with
such parasitic toadyisms as are incompatible with self-respect. ..."
5. Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland (1875)
"... toadyisms, and manoeuvres were stale in the ears of greedy Everybody—yet were
still, at thirty- six, thirty-eight, and forty years of age, ..."
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