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groveler
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun groveler has 1 sense
- groveler(n = noun.person) apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, truckler - someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect; Array is a kind of ass-kisser, crawler, lackey, sycophant, toady
Derived form verb grovel1
THESAURUS
groveler
apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, clawback, courtier, creature, cringer, dupe, fawner, flatterer, flunky, footlicker, handshaker, helot, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, mealymouth, minion, peon, puppet, serf, slave, spaniel, stooge, suck, sycophant, timeserver, toad, toady, tool, truckler, tufthunter, yes-man
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