Grovelling is valid Scrabble Word

Is grovelling a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
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Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for GROVELLING in dictionary:

VERB:

act obsequiously in order to obtain forgiveness or favour
lie or crawl abjectly on the ground with one's face downwards

NOUN:

he act of humbling oneself
act of grovelling

ADJECTIVE:

totally submissive

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to crawl in an abject manner

Words related to GROVELLING

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Words that contain GROVELLING

grovellings16 grovellingly20

How to use GROVELLING in a sentence

Presently a man came by and saw her, and stood still, for he thought it was the Evil One who was grovelling so among the roots.
She found her cottage surrounded, and her path beset, by a herd of grovelling pounds-shillings-and-pence hunters, whom her very soul loathed.
One great upright pyramid like this was worth a continent of grovelling acres.
The minds of the people, grovelling in superstition, and devoted, as St.
In the good old days of the eighteenth century this generally took the form of a burst of grovelling adoration aimed at some most noble or otherwise highly important person.
The dedication seems absolutely grovelling when viewed from the present standards, but Mr.
Richard, returning to the hut the same evening, found Alundyne there, alone, and grovelling at the threshold.
After the perplexing, and often low, grovelling duties of my profession, it was like sitting at the gate of heaven.
It took a later generation of Chippewayans to display that care for their posterity which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling nature.
Themselves essentially vulgar by habit and in feeling, their estimate of human tendencies is of the meanest, the most grovelling description.

These could not be inventions of the grovelling authors who relate them.
With some the motive is high, with others it is low and grovelling.
In doing this he had fallen foul of Pope, who could claim no such merit for his own editorial work, and Pope therefore regarded him as a grovelling antiquarian.
The soldier was on his knees, grovelling with face against the floor.
The coolie crowd huddled here alone, clutching their futile picks and shovels, grovelling in helpless panic.
King Louis spends half his time grovelling on his marrow bones before that saint and the Blessed Virgin.
To the accusation that pleasure is a mean and grovelling object of pursuit, the answer is, that human beings are capable of pleasures that are not grovelling.
And so suddenly Beaumains pulled him upon the ground grovelling.
And so on the morn he went to mass, and there he saw the thirty ladies kneel, and lay grovelling upon divers tombs, making great dole and sorrow.
And sometime they rushed together with such a might that they lay both grovelling on the ground.
And therewith Sir Launcelot leapt upon him, and pulled him grovelling down.
With that Sir Palomides fell to the earth grovelling.
And how they prayed, these fanatical Moslems! Rapt, absorbed, with yearning eyes and shining faces, rising, stooping, grovelling with their foreheads upon their praying carpets.
Then I took to writing, but the motive was grovelling, for I aimed at gaining money and flattery.
And at the last, Sir Beaumains smote Sir Perseant on the helm, so that he fell grovelling on the earth.
The Adoee is found, but always keeps at the bottom, the structure of its mouth pointing out its grovelling habits.
Priests ascribe to Deity the low, grovelling, vindictive, feelings which agitate and disgrace themselves.
Then the Red Knight smote Gareth on the hand that his sword flew from his grasp, and with another blow he brought him grovelling to the earth.
Be sure, too, that if we mix ourselves up with Ephraim, we shall find ourselves grovelling beside him before his idols ere long.
The highest advice I have heard on these subjects was grovelling.
It was too grovelling a pursuit, too mean a vocation, to make and to hoard money.

Similar words containing GROVELL without suffix ing

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