toad

noun

ˈtōd How to pronounce toad (audio)
Definition of toadnext
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 To help in her grieving process from her father’s death, Watts and McCollough took bufo, an intense, ego-death psychedelic derived from the venom of the Sonoran Desert toad. — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026 The last ceremony of the retreat was with 5-MeO-DMT, a powerful and fast acting psychedelic secreted from a toad. — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026 Within the understudied collection, Cruz found another oddball amphibian known as the Mexican burrowing toad, the only still living species from the family Rhinophrynidae. — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026 Similar molecules are found in the skins of many toad species around the world and have long been used for preparing poisons. — Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for toad
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toad
  1. jerk
  2. dog
  3. clown
  4. skunk
  5. snake
  6. rat
  7. reptile
  8. joker
Noun
  • Bella’s childhood friend Angus (Jake Simmance), a corporate jerk, condescendingly probes Johnny about his career.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
  • There was significant excitement over the first-look footage revealing perhaps the world’s biggest movie star transforming himself to become a portly, gray-haired jerk in an offbeat feature focusing on climate change.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of jerk
Noun
  • Sheriff’s cadaver dogs, deputies with shovels and a backhoe were seen at work.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Lead and cadmium exposure has been linked to canine cancer, a leading cause of death in dogs.
    — Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of dog
Noun
  • The brand featured a thematic clown mascot and the beloved product was sold in famously reusable glassware.
    — Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2026
  • What followed were Zoom-inclusive mediation meetings, the revelation of tens of thousands of dollars of debt, and something about clown school.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of clown
Noun
  • In North Carolina, rabies cases are most commonly found in raccoons, skunks, foxes and bats, Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health and Health Administration Rafael Vieira told UNC Charlotte.
    — Eva Flowe October 1, Charlotte Observer, 1 Oct. 2026
  • In California, bats and skunks are the animals that most often get rabies, according to the state health department.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of skunk
Noun
  • The public got the message, with some parents keeping their children indoors while police and herpetologists scoured that backyard for the snake.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Then there’s snake, tiger, zebra, and deer print…cow print is still hanging around too.
    — Fiona Ward, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of snake
Noun
  • That includes a robotic ray driven by light-sensitive rat heart cells in 2016 and a fish robot with human heart cells that swam on its own in 2022.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026
  • But of course where there’s one rat, there are usually more, and swarms of rats and an angry sea soon become the man’s antagonists.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of rat
Noun
  • The heavy rainfall activated the desert’s biological material, known as germplasm — seeds, bulbs and tubers but also the eggs of various invertebrates and reptiles.
    — Nayara Batschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In exchange, a new live-action feature of the sword-carrying reptiles is in the works aimed at families).
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of reptile
Noun
  • The smart kids, the shy ones, the jokers and the loners — every one of them is caught in the pyroclastic flow of adolescence, every minute a negotiation between fitting in and standing out.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The jokers Toth and Jackson, bless them, keep things endearing and funny.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of joker

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“Toad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toad. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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