grovel
verb (used without object)
to humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility.
groveller
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a word derived from
grovel.
Example Sentences
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I must become a pander or a parasite—a hired tyrant over slaves, or a chartered groveller beneath nobles—if I would not starve miserably in the streets, or rob openly in the woods!
From Antonina by Wilkie Collins
Few to the world their honest thoughts avow; the groveller policy robs justice now— And none but Sampson dares to lift a hond Against the curst corruption of the lond.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
I know I'm a fool and a groveller; but I'm going mad for love of you.
From A Mummer's Tale by Charles E. Roche
Bitter is their denunciation of the poet's arrogance: A man that's proud—vile groveller in the dust, Dependent on the mercy of his God For every breath.
From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins
Indeed from that day, her spirit being the spirit of the true snob, the hectorer of the humble, the devout groveller in the courtyards of the great, she was a much-changed woman.
From The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth
