toad-eating

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I hate little toad-eating cities.

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  1. Servile or sycophantic complaisance; sycophancy. Without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he [Boswell] never could have produced so excellent a book. Macaulay, Boswell's Johnson.
  2. Pertaining to or characteristic of a toad-eater or sycophant; sycophantic.

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