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cringing

[ US /ˈkɹɪndʒɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɪnd‍ʒɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. totally submissive

How To Use cringing In A Sentence

  • She got up then, the springs of the bed scringing a little under her.
  • I hate and despise the hypocrisy of these cringing opportunists.
  • They heard the stiff bolt of the back-door scringing as she levered it back.
  • We felt so many contradictory things, an involuntary patriotic righteousness, along with a cringing tribal embarrassment. Times, Sunday Times
  • The premise of this programme is that it's meant to be funny, a cringing trip down memory lane. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a shame because, to paraphrase Ginola's cringing catchphrase in the L'Oreal ads, she's worth it.
  • There is still a lot of that docile, cringing attitude among policy-makers 45 years later.
  • Ballymote now know how most of Sligo's Intermediate clubs felt when cringing in their classy slipstream throughout 2003.
  • A"Step right up to the Shootin' Corral fellas, first shot's for free!" he had barked in a greasy rasp at cringing fair-goers who tried to creep by his booth unnoticed,
  • The performance was a cringing embarrassment.
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