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creeping

Speech parts

1. creeping - Noun

2. creeping - Adjective

3. creeping - Verb

Meaning

of Creep

Crawling, or moving close to the ground.

Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are all creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. Crippity crappity creepies. Vincent Gallo

Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Jonathan Swift

Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards. David Livingstone

Do not allow sins to get beyond creeping. Hawaiian Proverb

You are creeping on your knees to the fireplace. Xhosa Proverb

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