- present participle of grovel.
grovelling
Example Sentences
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"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
He told his mother at the time, who got a "grovelling apology" before it was "hushed up".
From BBC • Jul. 28, 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
They fell forward, grovelling heedlessly on the cold earth.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
