What's the difference between lickspittle and toady?

Lickspittle


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I salute the LSE for its opposition to the BBC lickspittles who want to reveal the heroic comrades of NK as cult psychopaths."
  • (2) I don’t think lickspittle goes far enough describing what you’ve done.” The deal will ensure Australians gain access to the tax information of about 280 big private companies with revenue of at least $200m, but an estimated 500 to 600 companies will continue to be shielded from disclosure because they fall below the new threshold.
  • (3) They were "neo-cons" and "Zionists" and a "pro-war lynch mob", he raged, who belonged to a "lickspittle Republican committee" that was engaged in creating "the mother of all smokescreens".
  • (4) For a start, only two senators were present, sabotaging Mr Galloway's efforts to attack the whole lickspittle lot of them - and one of the two, the Democrat Carl Levin, had spent much of his opening statement attacking the hypocrisy of the US government in allegedly allowing American firms to benefit from Iraqi oil corruption.
  • (5) And nothing will change, because NFL ownership and their hollow-hammered lickspittle Roger Goodell know that millions more will strike similar, smaller compromises.
  • (6) When I was political editor of the FT, the establishment lickspittle tendency was rather more to the fore.
  • (7) His execution by evil King Joffrey's lickspittles after being fitted up for treason was one of season one's shocking moments.
  • (8) At the weekend, Featherstone – no coalition lickspittle – had announced a consultation on gay marriages, to the delight of the grassroots; Farron and Cable are, in their own ways and from their different vantage points, talked about as future leaders of the party; Ashdown did the job for 11 years.
  • (9) Once you wind down from the castle to the bottom of Peascod Street, they are not all royalist lickspittles; and as you cross over the junction to St Leonard's Road, you might sniff out closet republicans.
  • (10) Well a few weeks ago, when City University asked me for the title of this talk, I recklessly supplied the title "addicts, establishment lickspittles and paranoid monomaniacs".

Toady


Definition:

  • (n.) A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
  • (n.) A coarse, rustic woman.
  • (v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She became a vociferous critic both of the supermarkets, and of the 80s "foodie" culture as satirised in The Official Foodie Handbook by Ann Barr and Paul Levy, a volume she loathed ("To be sure they are skilful enough in the arts of toadying to their public and providing it with a little giggle at itself, but the meaning of satire in the true sense eludes them," she wrote in her review for Tatler ).
  • (2) It seems futile to sum up the plot, but here goes: The Satanic Verses is constructed around a pair of South Asian Muslims - Gibreel Farishta (meaning the Angel Gabriel), born into poverty as Ismail Najmuddin in Poona "at the empire's fag-end", but who takes up his other name as part of his transformation into a Bollywood star; and Saladin Chamcha (meaning Saladin the Toady), born Salahuddin Chamchawala to a rich and somewhat crass Bombay-based industrialist and his delicate wife.
  • (3) And if you continue to try to fuck with News International after toadying up to me for so long, then you're in for an even bigger kicking.
  • (4) A montage of A Question Of Sport clips ensues: first Emlyn Hughes toadying up to Princess Anne, then Matt Dawson forwarding the ass-kissing baton a generation later with her daughter, Zara Phillips.
  • (5) He toadied to corporations and bankers while depressing the wages of almost everybody else.
  • (6) Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, accused Shaheed of "toadying to the US and Israel" with a report that he described as unsubstantiated, biased and collated from "anti-Iranian outlets and terrorist groups".
  • (7) If tonight's match in Doha is an attempt to toady up to Fifa in a bid to secure the rights to stage World Cup 2022, it might be too late.
  • (8) If the Windsors ever get on their bikes like their Dutch counterparts, some toady like Lord St John of Fawsley will immediately be down on his knees, licking the road clean for them.
  • (9) The Queen, naturally, is to be asked to sign a reaffirmation of the principles of the great charter – no doubt at Runnymede, where King John was confronted by an eminently less toadying crowd – and there is a plan to get the UN involved to promote the rule of law .

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