Definition of Groveling. Meaning of Groveling. Synonyms of Groveling

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Definition of Groveling

Groveling
Groveling Grov"el*ing, a. Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] ``A groveling creature.' --Cowper.

Meaning of Groveling from wikipedia

- depleted, powerless. At the end, I was down on the floor on my knees groveling and pleading with him". Winfrey became so depressed that on September...
- Irish Diaspora. In the book, Coogan had written that Dudley Edwards had "grovelled to and hypocritically ingratiated herself with the English establishment...
- March 2010). "Gerard Butler's school pal on how Hollywood star phoned to grovel after branding her a flirt on TV". Daily Record. Retrieved 1 February 2013...
- down, they grovel, and I intend, with the help of Closey and a few others, to make them grovel. The outcry was instantaneous. The word "grovel" had sinister...
- an imperceptible degradation to solitary self-indulgence". The gluttons grovel in the mud by themselves, sightless and heedless of their neighbors, symbolising...
- his predecessor as "cruel and despotic, even mad". Seneca was prone to "grovelling flattery" of whoever reigned at the time. His experience under Caligula...
- apologetic but said he could do nothing when Cicero brought himself to grovel in the proconsul's tent. Everyone seemed to have abandoned Cicero. After...
- unbearable work of flattery to the loathsome Nero, mocking a man that Seneca groveled to for years. The historical novel Chariot of the Soul by Linda Proud features...
- waned. Muzik described the sound of UK techno at this time as "dutiful grovelling at the altar of American techno with a total unwillingness to compromise...
- his designs and to enforce his rule upon their fellow countrymen while groveling low themselves." He used the term again in an address to both houses of...