groveling

Example Sentences

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Groveling in the dust, the chiefs render homage to the nobles and then in turn take homage from the multitudes around.

From Time Magazine Archive

Groveling War Minister Hayashi apologized profusely to the Throne, took the entire blame upon himself, writhed with conscientious anguish.

From Time Magazine Archive

Groveling, man knows well; despair is seldom alien; yet these are perversities, no part of man's true lot.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

Groveling, they slipped forward, dim, moving shadows in a world of brown obscurity.

From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan