grovel

Absolutely, but Colin is eager to please and genuinely loves to grovel.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

On Monday, Gov. Kathy Hochul made Suozzi drive to Albany to all but grovel for her support.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

You have to grovel for it to run for office, and you don't get paid much of it if you're a member of the press.

From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2022

Elrond isn’t the only elf who has to grovel among the rabble in this episode.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

And then Henry begins to grovel for his life.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Instead of mandating, directing, or using the word “shall,” the code grovels before its own authors, flattering them with meek suggestions that justices “should,” “should not” and might “endeavor to” act in certain ways.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2023

It’s easy for an ego like his to grow wings and fly when, even as a washed-up quarterback, an NFL coach grovels for your services.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2022

Kichijiro, who enters grunting and twitching, as if in homage to Toshiro Mifune, and grovels at the priest’s feet, also seems on hand as much for comic relief as for guidance.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2016

"To Entertain a Small Hope That Might Allay My Heartache" features a letter in which Kemal grovels, still in its envelope.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012

On page 60 why did he not say, “She grovels like a beast, she hisses like a serpent, she stings like a scorpion”?

From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

For exactly a quarter of a century, I’ve grasped and groveled and guessed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025

“Blonde” wants you to believe that one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons was a haunted, hated sad sack who cried, screamed and groveled her way through film history.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2022

Franchises, of course, have always pandered — it’s in their D.N.A. — but rarely has one groveled quite so thirstily for fan approval.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

He groveled, and then hedged, then tried to walk it all back with the absurdly laughable claim that he confused the word “would” for “wouldn’t”.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2018

One moment he was dedicated and pure and devoted; the next he wallowed in filth; and the next he groveled in shame and emerged rededicated.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

It quotes: "Even if he grovelled to us on his knees, it wouldn't be enough."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

There’s not an artist out there who hasn’t grovelled on the path to greatness, and getting through school isn’t an impediment to a musical career but a platform to build one on.

From The Guardian ● May 21, 2017

"I really didn't mean to imply Becky had failed in any way," she later grovelled.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2012

Less than three months after their foolish decision, Coke’s bosses grovelled to customers and reintroduced classic Coke.

From Economist ● Mar. 29, 2012

He grovelled on the ground and could speak no clear words but nice master.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

As per Margaret Hartmann with New York Magazine's Intelligencer, the gift is "peak spineless groveling."

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025

Kruse told told the audience that the Black men who joined the Union Army were “not groveling for inclusion” but actively chose to fight.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

In the heartstopping series finale of “Succession” on Sunday night, striving Midwesterner Tom Wambsgans was named chief executive of Waystar Royco, completing his transformation from groveling buffoon to business titan.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2023

They’re driving race cars and apologizing for tech failures after hosting online events and writing groveling appeals to the commons like The Habsburg Way.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2023

But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

She told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme there appeared to be an understanding that everything would move on following Schofield's "grovelling apology".

From BBC ● May 29, 2023

"Trying to run around with your hand outstretched, grovelling, begging for money, is pointless," Putin said in a televised address to Russia's political, military and business elite.

From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2023

But its immediate collapse ended hopes of those new sources of income and forced the Glazers and FSG to make grovelling apologies to fans.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2022

And there is Orson Welles as Falstaff, and Falstaff is grovelling for Henry V. He’s banished.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019

Mustapha Mond tried to make him get up; but Bernard persisted in his grovelling; the stream of words poured out inexhaustibly.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley