groveling

Example Sentences

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If you’re not going to push back on his lazy groveling, then what are you even doing?

From Slate • May 9, 2025

As per Margaret Hartmann with New York Magazine's Intelligencer, the gift is "peak spineless groveling."

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2025

The protests in 2021 led to the clubs that backed out issuing groveling apologies to their fans for their part in the plans.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2023

In the heartstopping series finale of “Succession” on Sunday night, striving Midwesterner Tom Wambsgans was named chief executive of Waystar Royco, completing his transformation from groveling buffoon to business titan.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2023

We were in shaky transit that summer from the groveling status of Lower Middlers to the nearrespectability of Upper Middlers.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles