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Examples of grovelling
grovelling
Probably highly attentive, quick and deferential without grovelling in private.
From the independent.co.uk
A grovelling apology may not have rescued his campaign from this disastrous start.
From the economist.com
More unedifying still, surely, were the grovelling apologies offered to Adele yesterday.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
The NME editor has made a grovelling apology for her campaign against singer Ed Sheeran.
From the independent.co.uk
Lobbying will be furious but the rewards make any necessary grovelling well worthwhile.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Morgan is obviously nuthin'but a grovelling sycophant to that psychopathic tyrant, Mugaba.
From the economist.com
Grovelling apologies for being so snotty when I hadn't checked properly.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The firm was not content with issuing grovelling apologies and paying $850m in compensation.
From the economist.com
That good politics demands major grovelling about the damage caused.
From the economist.com
- Fawn: show submission or fear
- (grovelling) cringing: totally submissive
- To be prone on the ground; To crawl; To abase oneself before another person; To be nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something; To take pleasure in mundane activities
- To climb with obviously poor style or technique. A climbing route judged to be without redeeming virtue.
- To be humiliated by a route; to show bad climbing form.
- A bit involving groveling before royalty. In it s simplest form one simply prostrates oneself on the ground, but creative grovels can be Baroque in their elaboration.
- A hill you end up in your lowest gear for. "That hill was a real grovel." Also used on the flat when you have blown your ring.
