Antonyms for groveling

Grammar : Adj

Spell : gruhv-uhl, grov-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈgrʌv əl, ˈgrɒv-

proud

Definition of groveling

Origin : 1590s, Shakespearian back-formation of groveling (Middle English), regarded as a present participle but really an adverb, from Old Norse grufe "prone" + obsolete adverbial suffix -ling (which survives also as the -long in headlong, sidelong); first element from Old Norse a grufu "on proneness." Perhaps related to creep. Related: Groveled; grovelled; groveling; grovelling.

adj servile

Example sentences :

He grabbed the groveling butcher and hoisted him from his wallow.
Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter

How groveling must be the ignorance which can be thus blinded!
Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou

They had not the low and groveling spirit which usually incites mobs.
Extract from : « Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence » by Various

If in that moment she appeared a groveling thing, it was only for a moment.
Extract from : « The Blue Wall » by Richard Washburn Child

At every step she had to purchase silence by groveling humility.
Extract from : « Germinie Lacerteux » by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

Gasping, dying a thousand deaths, he lay there groveling in the dust.
Extract from : « Omega, the Man » by Lowell Howard Morrow

On the other side he is tied by this body of clay to the groveling earth.
Extract from : « Jewel Weed » by Alice Ames Winter

He is groveling to the public, sacrificing even his wife to the many headed.
Extract from : « Old Mole » by Gilbert Cannan

No great character can ever be built with low, groveling ideals in the mind.
Extract from : « The Victorious Attitude » by Orison Swett Marden

Without that they fall, and groveling die in weeds and dust.
Extract from : « The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) » by Robert G. Ingersoll

Synonyms for groveling

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