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grovelling (root: grovel)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective grovelling has 1 sense
- grovelling(s = adj.all) cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy - totally submissive; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
grovelling, a.
Lying prone; low; debased; submissive in a self-abasing manner. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
grovelling
abject, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, base, brown-nosing, cowering, crawling, cringing, fawning, kowtowing, low, mean, obsequious, scraping, servile, slavish, sordid, submissive, subservient, sycophantish, toadying, truckling
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