as in bastard
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
that miserable toad is lucky to have even a single friend
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Recent Examples of toad
Race across the grass, check on our neighbor's cattle and catch toads at sunset.
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Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 4 Feb. 2026
The collection includes $100 hoodies, $55-$60 T-shirts and New Era baseball caps that show the toad wearing all the NFL uniforms.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2026
The designs puts Concho, his Puerto Rican toad mascot, in all 32 NFL uniforms.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
It's become the boy who cried wolf, bear, moose, badger, wombat, elephant, natterjack toad, mandrel, meerkat, blue whale, lesser skink, prairie dog, ferret, wildebeest, dingo, tree kangaroo, sloth, anteater, blue-footed booby, Norwegian Blue, and half the catalog in the Museum of Natural History.
—New Atlas, 24 Jan. 2026
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Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 4 Feb. 2026
The collection includes $100 hoodies, $55-$60 T-shirts and New Era baseball caps that show the toad wearing all the NFL uniforms.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2026
The designs puts Concho, his Puerto Rican toad mascot, in all 32 NFL uniforms.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
It's become the boy who cried wolf, bear, moose, badger, wombat, elephant, natterjack toad, mandrel, meerkat, blue whale, lesser skink, prairie dog, ferret, wildebeest, dingo, tree kangaroo, sloth, anteater, blue-footed booby, Norwegian Blue, and half the catalog in the Museum of Natural History.
—New Atlas, 24 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toad
Noun
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Identifying Coyotes As part of the same genus as domestic dogs, coyotes may resemble a dog from a distance.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
9 Mar. 2026
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And also, dogs would be used to flush out deer hiding in bushes or in steep terrain, to expose them to waiting sharpshooters.—
Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
9 Mar. 2026
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Noem was the public face of that disapproval, strutting forward with arrogance in the face of public censure, a veritable clown show of ineptitude.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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How did clowns become a protest symbol?—
Janet W. Lee,
NPR,
5 Mar. 2026
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Without comment, the president shared multiple news articles covering his previous remarks slamming Maher as a jerk.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
8 Mar. 2026
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The Lion’s Tail that tastes like if a Jamaican jerk chicken and a Whiskey Sour couldn’t keep their hands off each other.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
7 Mar. 2026
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Some owls will hunt the wildlife that raids our garbage cans, like skunks and opossums.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
13 Mar. 2026
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Raccoons, skunks, crows, and moles feed on lawn grubs.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
9 Mar. 2026
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Nile monitors have been observed eating turtles, snakes, young crocodiles and other reptiles, birds and their eggs, and small mammals.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
13 Mar. 2026
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Its prey includes insects, but also other frogs, fish, turtles, bats and even snakes.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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For at least two years in the late 1940s, the building, then owned by a predecessor bank of Credit Suisse, housed a key stop on the secret routes that allowed Nazi officials to escape justice and flee to South America, known as rat lines.—
Hugo Miller,
Bloomberg,
10 Mar. 2026
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Tests on rats and sheep show injuries consistent with those seen in humans with Havana Syndrome.—
Mirella Brussani,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Students are required to bring two full decks of cards including the jokers.—
Kris Slugg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Mas, though, does have a joker in his deck.—
Felipe Cardenas,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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From reptile handling with the lodge’s lead ecologist, Dawn Booyens, to clay modeling using earth from a riverbed, there are plenty of ways for budding conservationists to engage with the environment.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Mar. 2026
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This ancient lineage eventually gave rise to the ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Toad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toad. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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