Synonyms for grovelling
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : gruhv-uhl, grov- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgrʌv əl, ˈgrɒv- |
Top 10 synonyms for grovelling Other synonyms for the word grovelling
- apple-polish
- beg for mercy
- bow and scrape
- butter up
- cater to
- cringe
- crouch
- eat crow
- eat dirt
- eat humble pie
- fall all over
- flatter
- humble oneself
- humor
- implore
- kiss one's feet
- kneel
- kowtow
- make much of
- make up to
- pamper
- play up to
- prostrate
- revere
- snivel
- soft-soap
- stoop
- suck up to
- truckle
- wheedle
- yes
Définition of grovelling
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.
- verb abase, demean oneself
- Compare that moment of exaltation with the grovelling life of your Christians!
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
- With a sense of grovelling meanness, Philip sat and listened.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
- He ended; and clung clasping our knees and grovelling at them.
- Extract from : « The Aeneid of Virgil » by Virgil
- Beggars display their stumps and their sores, grovelling on the ground like brutes.
- Extract from : « Appearances » by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- He will paint her as Circe, mocking at her grovelling herd of swine!
- Extract from : « Uncanny Tales » by Various
- But she still clung to his knees, grovelling on the ground before him.
- Extract from : « Orley Farm » by Anthony Trollope
- They were grovelling at his feet on the instant, and a driver behind me laughed.
- Extract from : « Gil the Gunner » by George Manville Fenn
- Not that Ratcliffe had anything to do with all this underhand and grovelling intrigue.
- Extract from : « Democracy An American Novel » by Henry Adams
- This was not war, this ignominious crawling, this grovelling in the soil, this halting!
- Extract from : « War and the Weird » by Forbes Phillips
- Grovelling in the mud with the poor devils who cannot rise?'
- Extract from : « For Faith and Freedom » by Walter Besant
Antonyms for grovelling
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