Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
grope . - noun An act of groping; a
grope .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence
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Examples
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The closest you get to interactive stalking is the train groping part of it.
RapeLay: The Response SVGL 2009
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However there will be times when groping is used as a weapon by a man against a man, by a woman against a woman and, arguably, by a woman against a man.
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However there will be times when groping is used as a weapon by a man against a man, by a woman against a woman and, arguably, by a woman against a man.
SeeLight: 2006
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But in groping for and moving into the sunlit plateaus of a better society we must ever bear in mind the necessity for adherence to one of those principles which are the underpinnings of society, a more ample and readily available justice.
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Mr. Flecha's arrest is the second tied to what police have described as a groping pattern in Brooklyn that dates back to March 20.
Groping Suspect Is Arrested Tamer El-Ghobashy 2011
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He stepped over a branch and recalled groping his way through the cemetery on that foggy night with Lexie when he'd been unable to see anything.
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You can call the groping a crime all you want, and you are technically correct, but you are contextually way out of whack.
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You can call the groping a crime all you want, and you are technically correct, but you are contextually way out of whack.
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‘First base’ referred to embracing and kissing; ‘second base’ referred to groping and fondling; ‘third base’ referred to fellatio, usually known in polite conversation by the ambiguous term ‘oral sex’; and ‘home plate’ meant conception-mode intercourse, known familiarly as ‘going all the way.’
GENERATION S.L U.T. Marty Beckerman 2004
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‘First base’ referred to embracing and kissing; ‘second base’ referred to groping and fondling; ‘third base’ referred to fellatio, usually known in polite conversation by the ambiguous term ‘oral sex’; and ‘home plate’ meant conception-mode intercourse, known familiarly as ‘going all the way.’
GENERATION S.L U.T. Marty Beckerman 2004
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