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  • Some friends of his accused him of being a tuft-hunter and flatterer of the aristocracy, on account of his politeness to certain people; the truth was, he wanted to go wherever Miss Ethel was; and the ball was blank to him which she did not attend.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • I do not think that I ever toadied any one, or that I have acquired the character of a tuft-hunter.

    An Autobiography 2004

  • Do not let persons on this account suppose that Mrs Robarts was a tuft-hunter, or a toad-eater.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • He was a tuft-hunter and a toady, but he did not know that he was doing amiss in seeking to rise by tuft-hunting and toadying.

    Can You Forgive Her? 1993

  • He is accused of lavishing his favours only upon the toady and the tuft-hunter, and leaving men of independent mind to the caprice of fortune.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

  • ‘Fraudulent little tuft-hunter,’ said Dacre, looking after him.

    Death of a Ghost Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1934

  • My dear Jack, did you ever observe anything of the tuft-hunter in me?

    The Machine Upton Sinclair 1923

  • But Page was no mere chaser of names; there was nothing of the literary tuft-hunter about his editorial methods.

    The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922

  • For is not my daughter the captive and concubine of an insane tuft-hunter?

    Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

  • How must the haughty spirit of Lara and Harold contemn the subaltern sneaking of our modern tuft-hunter.

    Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

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