toady
noun [ C ] disapproving uk/ˈtəʊ.di/ us/ˈtoʊ.di/
谄媚者，马屁精
a person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them
Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies.
Shostakovich was often seen as a political toady to Stalin.
Synonym: crawler (TRYING TO PLEASE)
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- She had her toadies, minor officials in Government offices who ran about putting through little jobs on her behalf.
- He becomes a prisoner of what his toadies tell him.
- She caricatures the cowardly toadies whose views changed along with the politics of the times.