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

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

I am a miserable groveler at the feet of humanity," he thought, "clutching at shrinking shoestrings for a piece of bread in pity's name.

From Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author by Blades, Leslie Burton

"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