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Meanings of groveler in English

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Someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect.

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      Examples for "bootlicker"
      Examples for "bootlicker"
      1
      I'm not about to announce she was a bootlicker.
      Pasta Imperfect
      2
      The self-important little bootlicker with the bowl cut.
      Fiendish deeds
      3
      A bootlicker! I'm not a snob!
      The Rains Came
      4
      I'm not a bootlicker!
      The Rains Came
      5
      I knew you were stupid and silly and a fool but I never thought you were a snob and a bootlicker.
      The Rains Came
      1
      The prostrate groveller struggled half-way up, exhibiting the bloated and filthy countenance of a drunkard.
      Tales and Sketches / Part 3 from Volume V of The Works of John G...
      2
      I know I'm a fool and a groveller; but I'm going mad for love of you.
      A Mummer's Tale
      3
      Or is she a hopeless groveller?
      Denzil Quarrier
      4
      Travellers - grovellers!' he repeated, turning to the card players.
      Metro 2033
      5
      'Travellers - grovellers!' the thug rhymed and guffawed loudly.
      Metro 2033
      1
      Build it up, and they're spineless fawners -if the story even runs.
      The Guardian
      2
      It is not all fawners and festivals and flowers, though.
      Daughters of the Nile
      3
      Tyranny likes courtiers, flatterers, followers, fawners, and superstition wants believers, disciples, zealots, hypocrites, and subscribers.
      Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I / Including His Answe...
      4
      He wished to walk with the greatest, not with trucklers and fawners, court satellites and panderers.
      The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
      5
      They're fawners and flatterers and frivolous girls.
      Daughters of the Nile
      1
      There is no cowardly, dishonest, selfish politician-behe who he may-notrimmer and truckler to the times-who will be forgotten.
      The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 / Devoted To...
      2
      He wished to walk with the greatest, not with trucklers and fawners, court satellites and panderers.
      The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
      1
      And, he thought, he was lining up at the head of ten thousand generations of ass-kissers.
      Dayworld Rebel
      2
      "You're a good ass-kisser, too."
      Dearly Devoted Dexter
      Usage of groveler in English
      1
      His cane smacks a groveler, who leaps backward.
      WATER FOR ELEPHANT
      2
      His grovelers follow, jogging in nervous spurts to keep up.
      WATER FOR ELEPHANT
      3
      Then he makes a sharp right turn and continues on his way, his grovelers straggling behind.
      WATER FOR ELEPHANT
      4
      Then, as his grovelers duck for cover, he reaches out and claps August on the shoulder.
      WATER FOR ELEPHANT
      5
      "I am not a groveler!"
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      Translations for groveler
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      Groveler through the time