groveling in English

verb

1

lie or move abjectly on the ground with one's face downward.

she was groveling on the floor in fear

synonyms: prostrate oneself, lie, kneel, cringe

adjective

• wormlike, wormy, cringing

verb

• prostrate oneself, lie, kneel, cringe
• be obsequious to, fawn on, kowtow to, bow and scrape to, toady to, truckle to, abase oneself to, humble oneself to, curry favor with, flatter, dance attendance on, make up to, play up to, ingratiate oneself with, crawl to, suck up to, lick someone's boots
• cower, cringe, creep, crawl, fawn

Use "groveling" in a sentence

1. Groveling at the feet of Oogway the Magnificent.

2. You must know how an ant feels, groveling like that.

3. 4 synonyms for Cringing: groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy

4. A request like yours requires flattery and groveling.

5. Here is the pretty official groveling in sentimentality.

6. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's people groveling.

7. Why are you groveling in the dust? Have you lost something?

8. Why are you groveling in the dirt? Have you lost something?

9. Dear Sam, she read, shaking her head at the profane groveling, the threatening accusations....

10. One good word from her is worth ten years of groveling to him.

11. He snorted and pranced and pawed at the floor in salivating lust and groveling need.

12. Abject lacks the idea of groveling, of moral degradation over time that is present in the English word

13. Synonyms for Cringing include servile, crouching, cowardly, obsequious, submissive, fawning, grovelling, sycophantic, subservient and groveling

14. Within the training class a dispute arose over whether, under the circumstances, groveling was acceptable.

15. Next time you communicate with your friend, express deep remorse and offer a groveling apology.

16. He just felt it was easier to step across the state line and have people groveling at your doorstep.

17. After being Barraged with death threats, Drew Brees' wife, Brittany Brees, issued a groveling on behalf of all white people.

18. Cringing: 1 adj totally submissive Synonyms: groveling , grovelling , wormlike , wormy submissive inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination

19. Back formation is the method of forming new words by subtracting something from old ones.The adverbs sideling, groveling, darkling were formed by adding the suffix -ling.But in such sentences, he walks sideling, he lies groveling, I listen darkling, the suffix -ling looked exactly like the ending -ing with the oust that the verbs to sidle, to grovel, to darkle were formed from the adverbs by

20. You might be groveling around in low-level bits and pointer arithmetic, then zoom out to an abstraction that's close to the business domain. You're always bopping back and forth. That's hard.