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Examples of grovel


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There is a big difference between grovelling on my knees in a 2 ft.
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There is no appeal, and no amount of grovelling will get them back in the pecking order.
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He is not a man who would accept grovelling.
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We must equally beware of truculence and of grovelling.
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The word "grovelling" was used.
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Stop grovelling and get on with it.
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He described himself as a grovelling sycophant.
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He has gone grovelling to them.
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He climed the social ladder through his unscrupulousness and steps down and grovels up.
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He grovelled to the insurgents as he had done to his parents.
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If he falls down, he is not permitted to rise or be raised, but grovels along upon the ground.
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The author also mentions that the country has been humiliated and ashamed of herself grovelling in the dust.
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Reduced to grovelling, he is removed by guards.
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There will be no mercy for our sugar-coated, honey-dripping, wheedling, grovelling allies!
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He boasts and bluffs then grovels like the worm he is when things go wrong.
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Words like halo, deity, worship elevates the country to a height and then words such as chained, grovelling, lowly dust and wreath bring out the contrast strongly.
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We should not have to apologise for such a deficit; certainly, we should not have to grovel to a foreign body.
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He would grovel at his feet, as he has always done.
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Unfortunately, swans grovel around for their grit and are likely to pick up anglers' weights.
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We are almost trying to grovel for a share of a cake which should be equally distributed.
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I should be the last one to grovel to anyone.
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All they do is grovel.
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They should surely be excluded for the same reasons, because they are not the sort of places where people might grovel around on the ground catching terrible diseases.
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I do not know how much more an elite work force can do as its members grovel, as they go on their knees to secure justice and fairness.
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Why should a country which has retained its independence for so many centuries have to virtually grovel and explain why it was necessary to exceed the permitted limit?
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If members of a family or business partners are either incurable bullies, devious self-seekers or just plain crooks, you do not appease, grovel or prostrate yourself.
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Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
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He finds out he has to grovel, which he finds extremely difficult.
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With regard to it they yet grovel in darkness and will.
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She never had to grovel for an appointment.
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The effect of reality and truth became conspicuous, even when the intention was to shew them groveling and degraded.
In these matters, we must apply the same standards, rather than condemning the small states while grovelling to the big ones.
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Reforming does not mean grovelling and letting ourselves be deprived of our identity.
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Yes, gentlemen, we will hold elections shortly, and we will talk about these subjects, about how you, on both sides, are grovelling to your governments.
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Their lives consist in grovelling before a leader who tells them each morning that the entire world wants to overrun them.
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With this in mind, it is my plea that we should respect human rights rather than grovel to anybody.
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Is it a case of "grovelling for votes"?
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I am afraid that grovelling appeals were made, giving the impression of weakness.
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By the autumn of 1962 they were almost grovelling on their hands and knees to get inside.
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First, we had the interregnum period last year, when there was a grovelling desire to seek office.
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Is it not better to be insolent than grovelling in war time?
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They do not have to go grovelling on their knees to obscurantist officials.
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Why were the grovelling apologies made so quickly—within a day?
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As the hosannas about success from the grovelling chorus of sycophants from whom we heard today ring loudest, matters are turning sour.
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As he pulled the window down she threw herself on the floor grovelling like an animal, making peculiar noises.
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