| He grovelled for a while, asking me how I was and such, and then he sprung the question. |
| An employee who forgot their password to log in to the corporate network would probably get a withering look from the support staff as they grovelled to have it reset. |
| I grovelled at the altar of the tasteless, hoovering up every nugget of vomitous drivel they chucked my way. |
| They groveled to the females before every song and it was just a lame rock performance. |
| He has since apologized, groveled even, for his lack of verbal self-control. |
| I remembered how, as a younger man, I would never have groveled or whined for any reason. |
