grovelling 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 oneselfliekneelcringe
adjective
verb

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1. He sent a grovelling note of apology.

2. 4 synonyms for Cringing: groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy

3. Die on your feet or grovelling in the dirt.

4. 10 He sent a grovelling note of apology.

5. I saw him grovelling in the road for his hat.

6. She was grovelling around on the floor, looking for her contact lens.

7. I was grovelling under the sofa, trying to find my contact lens.

8. I looked back and saw him grovelling in the road for his hat.

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

10. And, although it's not widely known, it is also the season of grovelling.

11. Can a policeman possibly enjoy grovelling in the dirty side of human behaivour?

12. So, what exactly is going on in the pesticide world to reduce me to such grovelling gratitude?

13. White House pressure on ABC is thought to be behind a grovelling apology later issued by the broadcaster.

14. Some of us even started pukingand grovelling sounds as we saw the ghostly feature approaching us.

15. Servile, humble, craven, cringing, fawning, submissive, grovelling, subservient, slavish, mean, low, obsequious He sounded Abject and eager to please.

16. He refers back to the Fish era as if in awe, and introduces the other Marillionauts with grovelling reverence.

17. Unless we start fully funding our educational system and stop attacking teachers, we will all be grovelling to China.

18. (White Fang, by Jack London) White Fang crawled slowly, Cringing and grovelling in the abjectness of his abasement and submission.

19. Politics is the art of the possible, not tricky-dick Nixon necrosis, Assad Asininity, Gaddafi grave grovelling or Saddam spite

20. Is your husband such a precious bargain that you should be grovelling there, lamenting and groaning for him?

21. But even that failed to satisfy the council and, last week, a grovelling apology had to be broadcast.

22. So, if you felt like calling me back, I'd be more than happy to do the traditional Christmas grovelling.

23. Some people who get that they shouldn't behave rudely or arrogantly , demanding an answer, retreat to the opposite extreme of grovelling.

24. 21 Their servile lives were spent in grovelling and cringing and toiling and running about like little dogs at the behest of their numerous masters.

25. Configuration got radically simpler—no more grovelling around for the system MDA and user's mailbox, no more worries about whether the underlying OS supports file locking.

26. 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

27. 25 Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given up; doubting and despairing must be removed; and self-seeking and carnal delights must be forsaken.

28. His spirit rose, as it were, with a bound, and attained a nearer prospect of the sky, than throughout all the misery which had kept him grovelling on the earth.

29. The immigration system leaves 11m people in the shadows and condemns many of the brightest graduates of American universities to years of grovelling before bureaucrats if they want to stay in America.

30. You're scared I'll hear you grovelling and begging! "Please, Great Lord Oboi, spare me sir! Spare my poor little neck! "You'd die of shame if I heard you talking like that! '