Translation for 'toadying' from English to French

toadying

flagorneur {adj}

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toadying [coll.]

flagornerie {f}

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toadying [pej.] [coll.]

fayotage {m} [fam.]

• Court Chaplain, Court Tutor, Court Master of Ceremonies, President of the Privy Council, District Administrator: A series of faceless, toadying officials of the Court of Popo who bow instantly to the word of the King.
• That experience may have helped alter his position on the proper role for a Black man to play in the South during that era, because afterwards, he advocated accommodation and acceptance of his "unctuous sycophancy", which prompted Washington to characterize him as "simply toadying to White people."
• Horace is advising Maximus that affability is the means between toadying and truculence, which is a virtue in social relationships.