groveling as an adjective: - 1
groveling
adjective
1 groveling
Totally submissive.
synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy.
Roget 886:
servile,
obsequious;
supple,
supple as a glove;
soapy,
oily,
pliant,
cringing,
abased,
dough-faced,
fawning,
slavish,
groveling,
sniveling,
mealy-mouthed;
beggarly,
sycophantic,
parasitical;
abject,
prostrate,
down on ones marrowbones;
base,
mean,
sneaking;
crouching
etc.
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Roget 940:
dishonest,
dishonorable;
unconscientious,
unscrupulous;
fraudulent
etc.
545;
knavish;
disgraceful
etc.
(disreputable)
974;
wicked
etc.
945.
false-hearted,
disingenuous;
unfair,
one-sided;
double,
double-hearted,
double-tongued,
double-faced;
timeserving†,
crooked,
tortuous,
insidious,
Machiavelian,
dark,
slippery;
fishy;
perfidious,
treacherous,
perjured.
infamous,
arrant,
foul,
base,
vile,
ignominious,
blackguard.
contemptible,
unrespectable,
abject,
mean,
shabby,
little,
paltry,
dirty,
scurvy,
scabby,
sneaking,
groveling,
scrubby,
rascally,
pettifogging;
beneath one.
low-minded,
low-thoughted†;
base-minded.
undignified,
indign†;
unbecoming,
unbeseeming†,
unbefitting;
derogatory,
degrading;
infra dignitatem [Lat.],
beneath one's dignity;
ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike;
unknightly†,
unchivalric†,
unmanly,
unhandsome;
recreant,
inglorious.
corrupt,
venal;
debased,
mongrel.
faithless,
of bad faith,
false,
unfaithful,
disloyal;
untrustworthy;
trustless,
trothless†;
lost to shame,
dead to honor;
barratrous.
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Moby thesaurus: abject, accumbent, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, backscratching, beggarly, bootlicking, brown-nosing, couchant, couche, cowering, crawling, cringing, crouching, decumbent, draped, fawnery, fawning, flat, flattering, flunkyism, footlicking, handshaking, hangdog, ingratiating, ingratiation, insinuation, kowtowing, lolling, lounging, lying, mealymouthed, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obeisant, obsequious, obsequiousness, on bended knee, parasitic, parasitism, procumbent, prone, prostrate, prostration, reclining, recumbent, reposing, resupine, sniveling, sponging, sprawled, sprawling, spread, supine, sycophancy, sycophantic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting ... show more.
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