Term Gallery logo

Meanings of grovelling in inglés

Totally submissive.

        Related terms
        Synonyms
        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
        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
        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 grovelling in inglés
        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
        6
        American history contains no such pitiful instance of cowardice and grovelling meanness.
        The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
        7
        And therewith Sir Launcelot leapt upon him, and pulled him grovelling down.
        Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1
        8
        It would be stooping, grovelling for you to make distinctions among people.
        The Great God Success: A Novel
        9
        Pie had fallen, and was grovelling, cursing, screaming, praying on the steps.
        Nedra
        10
        Are you a man, to lie grovelling on the floor like that?
        La Vendée
        11
        Get thee hence, grovelling worm, ere the lightnings of heaven blast thee!
        The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence
        12
        No amount of grovelling ever undoes the damage of a drunken text message.
        The South African
        13
        Hardly the grovelling stance you took yesterday, babbling how everything is in place!'
        Forge of Darkness
        14
        The poor grovelling worm turns under the foot of the pedestrian.
        History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 / ...
        15
        A grovelling statement was put the way of the Anti-Defamation League.
        The Irish Times
        16
        I did not mean grovelling or sordid; and you know I did not.
        The Good Time Coming
        About this term
        More collocations
        Grovelling through the time
        Grovelling across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common