Definition of "knee-crooking" [knee•-crook•ing]

• Obsequious; fawning; cringing. (adjective)

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• "“Better than any idol-worshipping, knee-crooking fool of a—”"
• "The Norman said nothing, but he did what the bystanders considered rather surprising in a knee-crooking Frenchman."
• "A bunch of pathetic hireling "knee-crooking knaves" as Shakespeare would say."