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Meanings of groveling in English

Totally submissive.

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        Examples for "cringing"
        Examples for "cringing"
        1
        Tracy Morgan's interview on the US Today show left us all cringing.
        News.com.au
        2
        He stopped and looked back at the people cringing in the doorways.
        The Stutterer
        3
        He saw men cringing as they neared the flames, heard children cry.
        A Dance with Dragons
        4
        Marco was holding it at arms' length, almost cringing away from it.
        Strata
        5
        The spirit loses its hopefulness and independence and becomes servile and cringing.
        Usury / A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
        1
        The dethroned monster lay grovelling on the floor, not daring to move.
        From Jest to Earnest
        2
        The soldier was on his knees, grovelling with face against the floor.
        Love under Fire
        3
        Perkins screamed with mad fear and flung himself grovelling upon the floor.
        The Skylark of Space
        4
        She was pleased that all the Court should see her thus grovelling.
        A History of the Four Georges, Volume I
        5
        He paused, and fell back again to the ground, grovelling and speechless.
        Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
        1
        You're gonna drink to Crystal's memory with a glass of wormy water?
        The burglar in the closet
        2
        All bruised, wormy or injured apples should be discarded at picking time.
        Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 / Embracing the Tra...
        3
        The arms of our backyard's apricot tree drooped with wormy fruit.
        Mysterious Skin
        4
        A few raindrops trickled onto the wormy chest they stood upon.
        Future Lovecraft
        5
        So if a bird happens to eat a parasitized caterpillar, it's bye-bye wormy.
        Wired
        1
        It has an excessively long slender muzzle, and a wormlike extensile tongue.
        The Naturalist on the River Amazons
        2
        Some are hairy caterpillars; others are smooth skinned and more wormlike.
        Vegetable gardening for dummies
        3
        Two unequal branches of the early wormlike organisms shrank into strong protective shells.
        The Story of Evolution
        4
        From other mouths, wormlike tentacles erupted, wriggled in the air, withdrew.
        Phantoms
        5
        The tentacles protruding from her pinched, wormlike face writhed in irritation.
        Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
        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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