toads

noun

plural of toad
as in dogs
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 toads The miracle behind Cruz’s discovery is that amphibians such as frogs, toads and salamanders rarely make it into the fossil records because of their fragile skeletons. — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026 One spring, Morgan visited a forest outside London and came upon two dead female toads in a pond. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026 There, students can see animals including snakes, axolotls, tiger salamanders, turtles, toads, frogs, tarantulas, millipedes, bunnies and owls, Wieser said. — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026 The current population is a result of the toads escaping or being released by importers during the 1950s and ‘60s, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026 In frogs and toads that parent, males take the lead about half the time. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 21 June 2026 Around ponds, frogs and toads will be eaten, and when worms emerge after rainfall, skunks will eagerly feed on those. — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026 Creacy said that the toads’ survival will depend on human assistance. — Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toads
  1. dogs
  2. clowns
  3. jerks
  4. skunks
  5. snakes
  6. reptiles
  7. rats
Noun
  • The dogs played such a significant role in the King and Camilla’s lives that the latter had a sketch of her dogs embroidered on her coronation dress along with the names of her children and grandchildren.
    — Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Why would a langur stroke a squirrel, or macaques groom stray dogs?
    — Cyril Grueter, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of dogs
Noun
  • One morning during my stay, there were even clowns buzzing about—a thrill to receive a balloon poodle alongside my morning flat white.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 July 2026
  • Perhaps most astonishingly, the movie manages to make creepy clowns — that shopworn trope — genuinely frightening again.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
Definition of clowns
Noun
  • That screwed up the works / And not due to his sloppy hiring / Of a crew of incompetent jerks.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Something from this article might put me on some Ben Shapiro list, where a bunch of jerks literally will just call me ‘f****t’ or worse on my social media.
    — William Earl, Variety, 10 June 2026
Definition of jerks
Noun
  • Although there are various ways to deal with skunks, one common product people often turn to is Pine-Sol.
    — The Spruce, The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Rabies is more common in bats and skunks, who occasionally transfer the deadly infection to pets.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 31 July 2026
Definition of skunks
Noun
  • There’s Tom Crutchfield, who loves women with the ardor of Pepé Le Pew but spends most of his time not in pursuit of the ladies but of exotic snakes, lizards, alligators, turtles and whatnot.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The snakes are also some of the largest in the world, and are often measured at about six to nine feet in length.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of snakes
Noun
  • And as Mike [Van Nostrand] says, if people were breeding more reptiles that may take pressure off of the poachers.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Other organizations like the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) monitor wild plants and animals, including amphibians and reptiles on a global scale.
    — Kalia Richardson, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of reptiles
Noun
  • Evidence of this mechanism stretches as far back as 1989, when French metabolic researcher Jean Girard and his colleagues published a paper describing how metformin increased the amount of glucose rats absorbed in their intestines.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But criticism of the outdoor dining arrangements built up, with detractors saying the spots were unsightly, dirty, and harboring rats.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of rats

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