[f. TOADY sb. + -ISM.] The action or behavior of a parasite or sycophant; mean and interested servility.
1840. Marryat, Olla Podr. (Rtldg.), 303. A person of her consequence could never exist without … toadyism.
1857. Hughes, Tom Brown, I. viii. By dint of his command of money,… and his adroit toadyism, he managed to make himself … rather popular.
1898. Bealby & Hearn, Sven Hedin’s Through Asia, I. 247. With biting wit and scathing irony he [Petrovsky] would lash the minor follies of the world, more especially everything that savoured of toadyism and servility.
