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To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
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(RQ:Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress)
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
(quote-book)|year=1860|page=28|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cPjxhfw-jgkC&pg=PA28|oclc=6186322|passage=Here the angel ceased, and frowning, / Hurled his heavy gauntlet at him; / Hurled, as best he could, the creature, / Cringing as the Serpent cringeth, / Coiled, and with his crest uplifted; / And then prone upon his belly, / Crawled away upon his belly, ...
(RQ:London Jerry)
(RQ:Guardian)
To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; to feel very embarrassed.
(quote-journal)|date=29 January 2014|issn=0040-781X|oclc=1311479|passage=I'm cringing watching this easily Blizzard- or Square Enix-worthy new trailer for Bethesda's ''The Elder Scrolls Online''. Not because it's bad — it's a deftly rendered slice of CGI. But it must have cost a fortune. It makes me want to say "Spend the money on knocking the game out of the park, please, not the frippery, Bethesda." But oh what frippery.
(RQ:Burton Melancholy)
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
(quote-book)|year=1846|oclc=156105509|passage=Lady, receive a tributary lay / From one who cringeth not to titled state / Conventional, and lacking will to prate / Of comeliness— ...
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(RQ:London Faith of Men)
(RQ:Du Bois Souls of Black Folk)
To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
(quote-book)|edition=4th|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(...) Gavin Alston; sold by William Coke,(nb...)|year=1782|page=119|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=GT0AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA119|oclc=316766184|passage=Here the beggar accoſts me; had I appeared as himſelf, he had aſked nothing: but now he uncovers, he cringeth, he cries for relief.
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
(quote-journal); Trübner|Trübner and Co.,(nb...)|date=23 June 1880|year_published=1882|volume=XII (Second Series)|section=part I (Notices of the Tribes of Midian, ...)|page=286|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rl8CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA286|oclc=301010011|passage=Even to the present day the Arabs consider treating a Hutaymi as unmanly as to strike a woman. When a Felláh says to another, "Tat'hattim" (= Tat'maskin, or Tat'zallí), he means, "Thou cringest, thou makest thyself contemptible (as a Hutaymi)."
To draw (a body part) close to the body; also, to distort or wrinkle (the face, etc.).
(RQ:Nashe Lenten Stuffe)
(RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra)
To bow or crouch to (someone) in servility; to escort (someone) in a cringing manner.
An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
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Things, particularly online content, which would cause an onlooker to cringe from embarrassmentNoun|secondhand embarrassment.
(RQ:Wired)
(RQ:Atlantic)
(RQ:Rolling Stone)
(synonym of) ''or'' (l), inducing awkwardness or embarrassment.
(quote-journal)
(quote-web)|url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/baby-talk-relationships|archiveurl=https://archive.ph/VN6VD|archivedate=9 September 2023|date=5 July 2022|passage=No matter which side you stand on within a relationship, most people agree that couples participating in baby talk publicly is cringe to say the least.
(quote-web)
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(l), cringeworthy
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(l), cringeworthiness (gl)
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