Grovelling
['ɡrɔvəliŋ]
Definition
(-) of Grovel
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Written also Groveling.] [1]. Creeping, crouching, squat.[2]. Low, mean, base, vile, abject, servile, slavish, cringing, fawning, beggarly, sneaking, earth-born.
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Examples
- Juries,' said Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane tightly, as was his wont when working into a passion: 'juries is ineddicated, vulgar, grovelling wretches. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Do you see those grovelling and wandering eyes? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And she felt she could not bear it any more, in a few minutes she would fall down at his feet, grovelling at his feet, and letting him destroy her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The feeble voice of those grovelling passions cannot extend so far either in time or distance. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The ladders are thrown down, replied Rebecca, shuddering; the soldiers lie grovelling under them like crushed reptiles--The besieged have the better. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was a grovelling fashion of existence: I should never like to return to it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I Presently the rude Real burst coarsely in--all evil grovelling and repellent as she too often is. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Poverty is necessarily selfish, contracted, grovelling, anxious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He twined his hands in his hair; and, with a loud scream, rolled grovelling upon the floor: his eyes fixed, and the foam covering his lips. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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