- present participle of grovel.
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
“Do you see what a villain he is? Do you see those grovelling and wandering eyes? That’s how he looked when we were tried together. He never looked at me.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
