Definition of "groveled" [groveled]

• Simple past of grovel. (verb)

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• "Appearing as messengers and propagandists for bourgeois ideology, the rootless-cosmopolitans fawned over and groveled before decadent bourgeois culture."
• "On Fox News's Mike Huckabee show, a group of people campaigning for the highest office in the land groveled before three right-wing state attorneys general and took turns repudiating the essence of our national character: one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
• "Contrast that with what I witnessed at the upscale party, where a wealthy man groveled and whined just to get his presumably rich friends inside."