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" True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either."
Julian Baggini

Meaning of "grovelling" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF GROVELLING

ˈɡrɒvlɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GROVELLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Grovelling is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES GROVELLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of grovelling in the English dictionary

The definition of grovelling in the dictionary is obsequious.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GROVELLING

bowling · calling · ceiling · cooling · cycling · dealing · falling · feeling · filing · filling · handling · mailing · rolling · selling · shaveling · sniveling · starveling · sterling · telling · willing

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GROVELLING

grouter · grouting · grouts · grouty · grove · grovel · groveless · grovelingly · grovelled · groveller · grovellingly · Groves · grovet · grow · grow bag · grow into · grow on · grow out of · grow out of one´s knowledge · grow the beard

WORDS THAT END LIKE GROVELLING

bestselling · billing · chilling · compelling · controlling · direct selling · drilling · dwelling · fulfilling · hot-selling · installing · killing · modeling · modelling · polling · scrolling · shilling · spelling · start the ball rolling · swelling · travelling

Synonyms and antonyms of grovelling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «GROVELLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «grovelling» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «grovelling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GROVELLING

Find out the translation of grovelling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of grovelling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «grovelling» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

卑躬屈膝
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

rastrera
570 millions of speakers
en

English

grovelling
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

groveling
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التذلل
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

низкопоклонство
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

rastejante
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ঘৃণ্য
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

rampant
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Groveling
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

kriecherisch
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

這う
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

비굴
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Groveling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quỳ gối
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

groveling
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

उष्मायन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

aşağılık
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

strisciante
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

czołga
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

низькопоклонство
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

josnic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

groveling
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kruiperige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

krypa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

grove
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about grovelling

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QUOTES WITH «GROVELLING»

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Julian Baggini
True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else - not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others, either.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GROVELLING»

Discover the use of grovelling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to grovelling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Grovelling and Other Vices: The Sociology of Sycophancy
"Grovelling receives its first sociological treatment in this widely acclaimed work by the eminent German sociologist, Alphons Silbermann.
Alphons Silbermann, 2000
2
Physical Ethics: Or, The Science of Action
Now it is evidently untrue that the end of action can be anything mean or grovelling or brutal ; and if our system led to such a result it would be worthy of the utmost scorn and contempt. But its whole tenor gives the lie to such an imputation, and ...
Alfred Barratt, 1869
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A Gaelic Dictionary: In Two Parts I. Guelic and English. - ...
A grovelling person, a driveller. More properly luaithreagan, from luaithre, ashes. Bidh an luaireagan luaith na uallachan gille, the child that grovelled in the ashes may be a strutting beau. — G. P. Luaireaganacii, a. (from luaithre.) Grovelling ...
Robert Archibald Armstrong, 1825
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A Gaelic Dictionary in Two Parts. To which is Prefixed a New ...
A grovelling person, a driveller. More properly luaithreagan, from luaithre, ashes. Bidh an luaireagan luaith nauallachan gille,, the child that grovelled in the ashes may be a strutting beau. — G. P. Luaireaganach, a. (from luaithre.) Grovelling ...
Robert Archibald Armstrong, 1825
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Dangerous Men & Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the ...
Modleski has argued that it represents a female revenge fantasy: ". . . all the while [the hero] is being so hateful, he is internally grovelling, grovelling, grovelling." Others have emphasized, like Krentz, the mythic struggle of the female to civilize  ...
Jayne Ann Krentz, 1992
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The Ecclesiologist
Is there no grovelling superstition, aye and more grovelling infidelity in these our days ? Is it more grovelling and more superstitious, to gaze through a hagioscope at the altar, than to sit in easy nonchalance, with our backs turned to the Holy ...
‎1847
7
Spoken in Whispers: The Autobiography of a Horse Whisperer
This grovelling was the only thing that could appease him. Instead of being dictated to, as was the norm for him, it was time for reversal of the species - horse over man. And quite right, too. After all, it was his skill and ability that we wanted so ...
Nicci Mackay, 1998
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Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution in Britain
There are, however, too many instances wherein the pressure of poverty, inability to maintain decent appearances in clothing and household comforts, have led to a low and grovelling mode of living; and much immorality — especially ...
E. Royston Pike, 2005
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Zoologist
Page 22. Then again, at p. 47, we find a theory on the subject of the deluge stigmatized as “the supposition of grovelling ignorance.” From these powerful expressions, it is very manifest that between the intemperate and injudicious orthodox on ...
Edward Newman, James Edmund Harting, William Lucas Distant, 1871
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The baptist Magazine
world." Let him have his argument. But if there be such a man as that here, I would say, My friend, — for I would call him so, though there would be something like poetry in it, — I have not brought down a great subject to that which is grovelling, ...
‎1842

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GROVELLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term grovelling is used in the context of the following news items.
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When grovelling is not enough. The 'mental waterboarding' of Greece
We, of course, were naïve. We the public, but also the Greeks and their leaders, along with the French and Italian leaders. All through the long ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
2
Labour finally apologises for the deficit - EIGHT years after the …
Leadership hopeful Andy Burnham made a grovelling apology live on air today after being heckled by a studio audience over his party's failure ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Arsenal's Wojciech Szczesny latest PL football player 'inhaling hippy …
In 2013, England right-back Kyle Walker issued a grovelling apology after he was pictured inhaling the gas during an night out in Sheffield. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Prufrock: Grade puts broker in the ejector seat
Tony Blair delivered a grovelling speech, recalling the moment Green came to see him a decade ago about the academy: “I said, 'What do you ... «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
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Grade puts broker in the ejector seat
Tony Blair delivered a grovelling speech, recalling the moment Green came to see him a decade ago about the academy: “I said, 'What do you ... «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
6
Predators in creditors clothing
But after victory Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras seemed to start grovelling, leaving some feeling that he was afraid of what he had wrought; ... «Pakistan Today, Jul 15»
7
Ellen Pao, profile: The woman who ran Reddit, and that Silicon …
Pao produced a grovelling apology, in which she accepted full blame. “We screwed up,” she declared, “not just on 2 July, but also over the past ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
8
Ariana Grande has apologised AGAIN, and this time she really is sorry
But the starlet has remedied it all with a grovelling YouTube video about doughnut gate – where she was caught licking doughnuts on display ... «Metro, Jul 15»
9
Giles Coren reviews John Doe
'I like tablecloths. I love a grovelling sommelier. I've had it up to here with being called “mate” '. A survey of 1,000 British diners revealed the ... «The Times, Jul 15»
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Five horrific digital marketing disasters
... the newspapers involved were also penalised. It took Interflora 11 days of link-removing (and presumably grovelling) to get the penalty lifted. «Econsultancy, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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