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

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

Within two days, Sweet produced a groveling apology, in which he indicted himself for a “ham-fisted attempt at provocation” that “alienated some of my Black colleagues and friends” and for which he was “deeply sorry.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2022

Dog goes down on his stomach, groveling about in the grass.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor