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Meanings of groveling in English

Totally submissive.

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Usage of groveling in English
1
Let it never be forgotten that there is nothing groveling in Odd-Fellowship.
The Jericho Road
2
Somehow it sounded like groveling and I've never been good at that.
The last illusion
3
There's still the groveling next generation of underdog letters to send out.
Choke
4
He was shipped off to the Tower of London and died groveling.
Quicksilver
5
Hammer was a ruthless tyrant, but he didn't tolerate groveling or cowardice.
Avalon
6
What a contrast between that ambitious, cocky Hoshina and this groveling creature!
The Dragon King’s Palace
7
Without generosity, benevolence, or charity, man would be a groveling, despicable creature.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
8
I apologize; I'm down in the dust; I feel like groveling.
The Firefly of France
9
The spectacle of an entire nation groveling in contentment is an infuriating thing.
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
10
Lowenstein-sucha privilege that you should visit us, he said, groveling.
For the love of mike
11
I started imitating somebody that was groveling, said Trump on Friday.
The Guardian
12
He demanded you pay him attention, then decided you were weak for groveling.
NY Magazine
13
I think such groveling and humility are fine things for you to taste.
World of warcraft: the shattering: prelude to cataclysm
14
The queen of Winter, groveling before her general and his wife.
Snow Like Ashes
15
I'd kinda like to hear you do a bit of groveling.
Daniel's desire
16
I will have lost any spying reader back in that welter of groveling.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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