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Groveling   /grˈɔvəlɪŋ/  /grˈɔvlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Grovel  v. i.  (past & past part. groveled or grovelled; pres. part. groveling or grovelling)  
1.
To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie flat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl. "To creep and grovel on the ground."
2.
To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.


adjective
grovelling, groveling  adj.  Lying prone; low; debased; submissive in a self-abasing manner. "A groveling creature."
Synonyms: cringing, wormlike, wormy.





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"Groveling" Quotes from Famous Books



... hearts is an expression worth an empire, and is always used with peculiar emphasis and enthusiasm. For a favourite topic of these epistles is the groveling spirit and sordid temper of the parents, who will be sure to find no quarter at the hands of their daughters, should they presume to be so unreasonable as to direct their course of reading, interfere ...
— Essays on Various Subjects - Principally Designed for Young Ladies • Hannah More
... that the candle went out, and we groped along in total darkness toward the rear of the house from where the sounds were coming. The cries had died down by this time into a horrible inarticulate wail, half animal, half human. I recognized the tones with a cold thrill; it was Mose. We found him groveling on the floor of the little passage that led from the dining-room to the serving room. I struck a light and we bent over him. I hated to look, expecting from the noise he was making to find him lying in a pool of blood. But he was entirely whole; there ...
— The Four Pools Mystery • Jean Webster
... away of millions. Rigidly honest, yet absolutely unscrupulous; faithful to the last letter of his given word, yet so treacherous where his sly mind could nose out a way to evade the spirit of his agreements that his name was a synonym for unfaithfulness. An assiduous and groveling snob, yet so militantly democratic that, unless his interest compelled, he would not employ any member of the "best families" in any important capacity. He seemed a bundle of contradictions. In fact he was ...
— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips
... were possible only by the subjection of the black race under the white, loathed civil equality as but another name for private companionship, and spurned, as dishonor and destruction in one, the restoration of their sovereignty at the price of political copartnership with the groveling race they had bought and sold and subjected easily to the ...
— Strange True Stories of Louisiana • George Washington Cable
... strange, a phenomenal thing occurred. An unseen hand appeared to strike down both Mallow and his accomplice where they stood, and it smote them, moreover, with appalling force and terrifying effect. One moment they were in complete mastery of the situation, the next they were groveling in the road, coughing, sneezing, barking, retching, blaspheming poisonously. Baffled fury followed their first surprise. Mallow tore the mask from his face and groped blindly for the weapon he had dropped, but before he could recover it, pain mastered him and ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach


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