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  • noun Plural form of groveller.

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Examples

  • News, or is ot good old fashioned money in the form of some sinecure like so many other Beeb grovellers.

    Boaden Beats Her Own World Record Newmania 2008

  • News, or is ot good old fashioned money in the form of some sinecure like so many other Beeb grovellers.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Newmania 2008

  • News, or is ot good old fashioned money in the form of some sinecure like so many other Beeb grovellers.

    Archive 2008-01-06 Newmania 2008

  • Varden, glancing at herself in a neighbouring mirror, and arranging the ribbon of her cap in a more becoming fashion — ‘mere worms and grovellers as we are!’

    Barnaby Rudge 2007

  • But let us stoop to take the wretch as he is, and make the best of him, since you are destined to stoop, to keep grovellers and worldlings in countenance.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • 'Right,' I said, keeping the card and carefully not yelping with delight as Arcellano and his grovellers made to depart.

    The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981

  • They are grovellers, whose coarseness of taste is only fitted for the grossest food of life.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 Various

  • Even then he always assumed a condescension towards me, an air as of one who temporarily stepped down from a pedestal to mingle with common grovellers.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 17, 1891 Various

  • You are a race of money schemers, money grovellers, lacking in high ideals and genuine spiritual life without which patriotism is an empty word.

    The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory Cleveland Moffett 1894

  • How dare you speak of angels in connection with your sinful fellow-beings -- mere '-- said Mrs Varden, glancing at herself in a neighbouring mirror, and arranging the ribbon of her cap in a more becoming fashion --' mere worms and grovellers as we are! '

    Barnaby Rudge Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1892

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