- present participle of grovel.
grovelling
Example Sentences
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Tip No. 3: Stop Grovelling for WorkQuick—how do you explain your business in a social situation?
From Inc • Apr. 28, 2011
Grovelling, patently insincere corporate apology ads, from Arthur Andersen after Enron to BP after Deepwater, haven't helped our appreciation of self-financed advertising.
From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2011
Grovelling at my feet, in sobs of shame and with prayers for pardon, Isabel has told me all.
From Bylow Hill by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
Grovelling and imperfect natures have often thus been lifted up and carried in the arms of superior wisdom and purity.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
Be dismal, deathly, dirty, dim; Grovelling, ghastly, gruesome, grim, Anything meaning morbid whim; Quidnuncs will cry, "What treuth! what vim!"
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 5, 1892 by Various
