Grovelling

Synonyms for "grovelling" (45 found)

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Closest matches (9)

abject apple-polishing ass-kissing base brown-nosing cowering crawling cringing

Noun(1 words)

crawl

Strong matches (14)

Adjective(2 words)

cringing groveling

Noun(10 words)

curry favordeference deferential fawn flatter flattery humility ingratiating ingratiation kowtow

fawning kowtowing

Related words (22)

Noun(8 words)

kowtowing obsequious pandering prostrate servile servility submissive submissiveness

low mean obsequious scraping servile slavish sordid submissive subservient sycophantish toadying truckling

Adjective(2 words)

wormlike wormy

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

12 entries

act action adjective behave behavior conductdescriptive wordlie downmove practicequalitative descriptorsocial conduct

More specific

13 entries

bureaucratic appeasementcrawlcurry favorfawn flatter kowtow kowtowinglip servicepolite deferenceprostrate servilitystrategic flatterysubmissiveness

Collocations

11 entries

excessive grovellinggrovelling apologygrovelling before authoritygrovelling behaviorgrovelling concessiongrovelling displaygrovelling flatterygrovelling posturegrovelling praisegrovelling submissiongrovelling tone

Inflections

6 entries

groveling grovelled grovellings grovelsmore grovellingmost grovelling

Derivations

5 entries

grovel groveler groveling grovelingly groveller

similar

1 entries

submissive

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He had to send them a grovelling letter.

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