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- adverb Alternative form of
grovellingly .
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Examples
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First we heard that Rove had grovelingly thrown his support to O'Donnell.
The Morning Plum 2010
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And Biden, please don't be so grovelingly obvious in the future.
Biden makes it A, B,C simple: there's not going to be any "lesser of the evils" 2008
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In the next post of her blog, where she grovelingly apologizes for having dared offend the orthodox.
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“Captain Kirk humbly, grovelingly apologizes and requests forgiveness,” Fox said.
THE RIFT PETER DAVID 1991
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Samantha's parents forget her 16th birthday but realize their mistake and grovelingly apologize for it -- exactly the kind of reversal-of-power scenario that teenagers fantasize about constantly, and a regular part of most adolescent fiction, where kids outsmart, act independently of, or otherwise prove superior to adults.
Film.com Movie Blog 2009
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You would think such a grovelingly good Catholic like Altmire would already know the Church’s views on leaving the poor and the unfortunate to go suff.
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You would think such a grovelingly good Catholic like Altmire would already know the Church’s views on leaving the poor and the unfortunate to go suff.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Third of all, concern troll, I know, and you probably know as well, that those who do try to be obsequious and grovelingly “respectful” of creationists don’t get civility back in return.
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