grovel(TRY TO PLEASE)
They grovellingly admitted their mistake.
He was explaining grovellingly about how he came to park his car in the wrong space.
The presenter introduced his guest grovellingly.
People are pleased, not grovellingly grateful, to have a job in this sector.
There was criticism of his grovellingly sycophantic interview with the country’s leader.
Newspapers remained grovellingly on message.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
flummery
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
hagiographic
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
schmooze
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous