Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bending the knee as in reverence; humble; servile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obsequious; fawning; cringing.
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Examples
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“Better than any idol-worshipping, knee-crooking fool of a—”
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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“Better than any idol-worshipping, knee-crooking fool of a—”
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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The Norman said nothing, but he did what the bystanders considered rather surprising in a knee-crooking Frenchman.
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A bunch of pathetic hireling "knee-crooking knaves" as Shakespeare would say.
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You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,
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