Synonyms for groveling
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : gruhv-uhl, grov- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgrʌv əl, ˈgrɒv- |
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for groveling
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