groveling
Showing excessive, servile respect or submission, often to gain favor or forgiveness.
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I like how all AI prompts seem to start with groveling and worship and admiration of the LLM by the user. "Oh great computer you are the greatest, coolest, most majestic, and big-brained robot stud."
Ass kidding jerk from South Carolina just groveling to the turd
Because there are people who will still try to deny the Reality of this Abomination. They've elected or allowed it to populate their Administration w/ groveling sycophants who despise the Electorate.
Such pathetic groveling makes one wonder what Trump is holding over Graham. 🤔
No! Claude recently sassed me. Gave me a reply straight out of my 9yo’s preteen repertoire. I can assure you that is way worse than cloyingly positive feedback about the brilliance of my ideas and groveling when it ma…
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Showing excessive, servile respect or submission, often to gain favor or forgiveness.
“I like how all AI prompts seem to start with groveling and worship and admiration of the LLM by the user. "Oh great computer you are the greatest, coolest, most majestic, and big-brained robot stud."”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Ass kidding jerk from South Carolina just groveling to the turd”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Because there are people who will still try to deny the Reality of this Abomination. They've elected or allowed it to populate their Administration w/ groveling sycophants who despise the Electorate.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Such pathetic groveling makes one wonder what Trump is holding over Graham. 🤔”
— Bluesky· May 2026“No! Claude recently sassed me. Gave me a reply straight out of my 9yo’s preteen repertoire. I can assure you that is way worse than cloyingly positive feedback about the brilliance of my ideas and groveling when it makes a mistake.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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The act or practice of one who grovels.
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Of an animal, having the belly or face towards or on the ground.
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- grovelling86%
The act of one who grovels.
- grovelling85%
The act of grovelling — crawling, begging, or debasing yourself before someone in a humiliating display of submission or desperate apology. Whether literal (face-down on the floor) or figurative (sending the third apologetic text in an hour), grovelling is undignified by definition. In everyday slang, accusing someone of grovelling is a pointed observation that they've abandoned all self-respect in pursuit of forgiveness, favor, or approval. It's often used with contempt, sometimes with exasperated sympathy.
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To act in an obsequious or servile manner.