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groveling

[ US /ˈɡɹɔvəɫɪŋ, ˈɡɹɔvɫɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈɒvəlɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. totally submissive

How To Use groveling In A Sentence

  • I don't want to sound like a begging, grovelling idiot, but I am genuinely in pain knowing that I cant go.
  • Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet. Across China on Foot
  • White Fang crawled slowly, cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission. The Trail of the Gods
  • Grovelling is certainly no way to win employment—or at least no way to win employment for an organisation that I would want to work for.
  • Appeasement and compromise will turn enemies into friends, if groveling and self-abasement do not first drive friends into the enemy camp. Farewell to America's China Station
  • I bet all the grovelling begins all over again next week.
  • They sent a grovelling email to the couple begging for forgiveness.
  • He gasped as he saw her, and fell to the ground, groveling at her feet, pleading with her.
  • I guess most of the Negroes in that area were kind of groveling creatures, you know. Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, July 28, 1976. Interview G-0056-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • I knocked over the bowl with all the beads in it and spent fifteen minutes grovelling on my hands and knees on the living room carpet painstakingly picking them up again.
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