groveling

Example Sentences

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If you’re not going to push back on his lazy groveling, then what are you even doing?

From Slate • May 9, 2025

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

I saw them gradually worn down, whimpering, groveling, weeping—and in the end it was not with pain or fear, only with penitence.

From "1984" by George Orwell