When you cringe, your body language shows you don't like what you see and hear. You close your eyes and grimace. You may even jerk your body away from the offensive sight or sound, like the old picture of you in an "awkward stage" that makes you cringe whenever you see it.
To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
Verb
draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
Verb
show submission or fear
v. t.
To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to
bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a
degrading manner; to fawn.
v. t.
To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or
wrinkle; to distort.
n.
Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in
fear or servility.
Cringe
When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions.
Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch?
Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing.
Cringe
Till like a boy you see him cringe his face, And whine aloud for mercy.
Cringe
To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
Usage Examples
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.
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