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groveling如何读

英：['grɒvlɪŋ]

美：['grɒvəlɪŋ]

groveling是什么意思

adj.匍匐的；卑躬屈节的
动词grovel的现在分词形式.

groveling词根

词根：grovel

adj.

grovelling 奴颜婢膝的；卑下的；卑躬屈节的

groveler 卑恭屈节的人

grovelling 趴在地上；匍匐（grovel的ing形式）

vi.

grovel 匍匐；卑躬屈膝；趴

groveling英英释义

verb

intransitive verb

to creep with the face to the ground : crawl

to lie or creep with the body prostrate in token of subservience or abasement

groveled at the feet of the king

to abase oneself

would not grovel for political advantage

to give oneself over to what is base or unworthy : wallow

groveling in self-pity

groveling词源英文解释

back-formation from groveling prone, from groveling, adverb, from Middle English, from gruf, adverb, on the face (from Old Norse ā grūfu) + -ling

The first known use of grovel was in 1552

groveling儿童词典英英释义

grovelverb

to creep or lie face down on the ground (as in fear)

to degrade oneself by behaving in an excessively submissive way : cringe

groveling 例句

1 The reaction from local Republicans this past week though was either misdirection or groveling.

2 Remember how he had rebuked Greene and now went groveling to her, and let her back onto committees?

3 The protests in 2021 led to the clubs that backed out issuing groveling apologies to their fans for their part in the plans.

4 Kruse told told the audience that the Black men who joined the Union Army were “not groveling for inclusion” but actively chose to fight.

5 The peasants groveled before the king.

6 Empathy begins with sincerity, not groveling.

7 He told an interviewer, “If I don’t completely screw that up, it might be possible for me to end my career standing on my own feet rather than groveling for coins.”

8 The man, referred to in court documents as John Doe #2, pleaded with the crowd to not beat him up, according to prosecutors, and groveled while on his knees.

9 On “Get Her Back,” after whining “It’s so hard,” do you think that forcefully and sternly declaring, “But it doesn’t have to be” makes your point more effectively than just uninterrupted groveling?

10 I saw them gradually worn down, whimpering, groveling, weeping—and in the end it was not with pain or fear, only with penitence.

11 He felt the smash of truncheons on his elbows and iron-shod boots on his shins; he saw himself groveling on the floor, screaming for mercy through broken teeth.

12 After about ten minutes of groveling, though, it’s clear she’s not having any of it.

13 Wolff represents those who stuck it out with Trump as groveling desperados, their wits dulled by the Trump treatment — oily flattery and savage cruelty.

14 Firebrand Republican Senator Josh Hawley said in a tweet that such "embarrassing groveling to China is a historic mistake."

15 If she were bound for the gallows, she would most certainly not spend the last moments of her life in groveling submission.

16 Poor McCarthy spent the next seven years groveling and genuflecting to these extremists under the foolish impression that they would reward him for his fealty.

17 Not only would that be groveling, it probably wouldn’t achieve the desired effect; Dana would still hassle him without mercy.

18 “Have you had a chance to … ?” lets you press diplomatically without groveling or coming off as insincere.

19 Historian Twitter exploded — there were rants and calls for resignation and, eventually, a groveling apology.

20 "Jim Jordan called me crying, groveling, begging me to go against my brother, begging me, crying for a half-hour," whistleblower Mike DiSabato said.