groveler
Example Sentences
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While not known as a small-wave groveler, Mikey can mix it up in the non-life-threatening conditions as well and will display his skills this summer at the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
She approached the god, followed by Octavian, who was bowing and scraping like a champion groveler.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
"From libel, come libeled, libeler, libeling, libelous; from grovel, groveled, groveler, groveling; from gravel, graveled and graveling."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Passionate beauty!—still holding her— I speak, though with vehemence, the deliberate wish of my heart.—O that I could avoid looking down upon thee, mean groveler, and abject as insulting—Let me withdraw!
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel
Why, you come more like a groveler than a governor!"—"Peace,
From The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Tappan, Eva March
