groveling

Speech parts

1. groveling - Noun

2. groveling - Adjective

3. groveling - Verb

5. groveling - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Grovel

Lying prone; low; debased.

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Examples

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful. Edward Abbey

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. Henry David Thoreau

These could not be inventions of the groveling authors who relate them. They are far beyond the powers of their feeble minds. They shew that there was a character, the subject of their history, whose splendid conceptions were above all suspicion of being interpolations from their hands. Thomas Jefferson

I am very good at groveling. Megan Whalen Turner

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want. Ben Gibbard

Wilt thou debase the heart which God refined? No; let thy heaven-taught soul to heaven aspire, To fancy, freedom, harmony, resigned; Ambition's groveling crew forever left behind. James Beattie

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