grovelling
Example Sentences
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He added: "This statement needs to contain a commitment to growing the economy and a grovelling apology for the amount of money that has been wasted".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024
"Trying to run around with your hand outstretched, grovelling, begging for money, is pointless," Putin said in a televised address to Russia's political, military and business elite.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2023
But its immediate collapse ended hopes of those new sources of income and forced the Glazers and FSG to make grovelling apologies to fans.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2022
And there is Orson Welles as Falstaff, and Falstaff is grovelling for Henry V. He’s banished.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
His eyes smouldered with anger, but he could not avenge himself: his miserable enemy lay grovelling on the stones whimpering.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
