| 词汇 | grovelling |
| 释义 | grovelling adjective mainly UKdisapproving(US usuallygroveling)uk /ˈɡrɒv.əl.ɪŋ/ us /ˈɡrɑː.vəl.ɪŋ/ behaving with too much respect towards someone, in order to show that you want to please them or want them to forgive you: grovelling apologyTheir spokesperson went on TV to make a grovelling apology. They are grovelling sycophants. Related word grovel(TRY TO PLEASE) The company was forced to make a grovelling apology to millions of its clients after the system went down for several hours. They were forced into a grovelling apology. He responded by sending a grovelling letter of apology. The paper published a hasty and grovelling retraction. They published a series of grovelling articles about him. It was suggested that the letter might be too grovelling. Praising insincerely or too eagerly backhanded compliment bootlicker bow and scrapeidiom crawler creep flummery glad-handing grovel grovellingly hagiographic obsequious obsequiously people pleaser play up to someone schmooze sycophantically toady toadying truckle unctuous grovelling noun[ U ] mainly UKdisapproving(US usuallygroveling)uk /ˈɡrɒv.əl.ɪŋ/ us /ˈɡrɑː.vəl.ɪŋ/ a way of behaving with too much respect towards someone in order to show that you want to please them or want them to forgive you: They would have to do some grovelling. He was sure that grovelling wouldn't help. Related word grovel(TRY TO PLEASE) It was time to give in and do some grovelling. There would definitely be some serious grovelling involved. First he needed to get the grovelling out of the way. He looked embarrassed by the other man's fulsome grovelling. She would never do her grovelling and pleading in front of other people. Showing respect and admiration admiration admire admiring admiringly approving approvingly forelock freedom fulsome fulsomely fulsomeness glorify hallow pay your respectsidiom philogynist philogyny put someone on a pedestalidiom regild respectfully worshipful |
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