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  • I want you to tell me that you're disgusted with me and that you're going to leave so that I can beg and grovel on my knees for you to stay.  (source)
    grovel = show submission or fear
  • No more begging, no more groveling.  (source)
    groveling = showing submission or fear
  • Even now, Miro could touch certain spots on a body that would cause a victim to grovel with pain.  (source)
    grovel = show submission or fear
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  • A hideous grovelling slave who flatters when he's kicked but treasures it all up and hopes to get his own back by egging on that horrible Tisroc to plot his son's death.  (source)
    grovelling = showing submission or fear
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use groveling.
  • It burned him to plead for his job, but groveling to el Gerente was still preferable to work in the bean fields.  (source)
  • For two and a half years, he'd been forced to grovel before sadists and imbeciles as he tried to protect his men.†  (source)
    grovel = show submission or fear
  • The rest of the terrified prisoners filled the glen with wails of horror as they grovelled on the ground, soiling themselves, begging for mercy.†  (source)
    grovelled = showed submission or fear
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use groveled.
  • Patsy bowed and groveled a bit when I turned to face him, but said nothing.†  (source)
  • And a lot of my fantasies involve the ways in which Mia grovels for my forgiveness.†  (source)
    grovels = shows submission or fear
  • Then he makes a sharp right turn and continues on his way, his grovelers straggling behind.†  (source)
  • And the youngest was a groveler, a scrounger under the pews—I couldn't even remember what its sex was.†  (source)
    groveler = someone who shows submission or fear
  • Have we not grovel'd here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?†  (source)
    grovel'd = showed submission or fear
    editor's notes: Today we would write groveled.
  • That all these visionary shapes A soulless groveller should banish thus!†  (source)
    groveller = someone who shows submission or fear
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it groveler.
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