grovelling

Example Sentences

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"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

He told his mother at the time, who got a "grovelling apology" before it was "hushed up".

From BBC • Jul. 28, 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

‘Mercy, lord!’ whined Wormtongue, grovelling on the ground.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien