cringe 的 2 个定义
cringed, cring·ing.
- to shrink back, bend, or crouch, especially in fear, pain, or servility; cower: She cringed in a corner and started praying. They cringed and bowed before the king.
- to feel very embarrassed or awkward; react with discomfort: Some of us cringed at the speaker’s tactless comments.
- to seek favor by acting in a servile way; fawn: He has never cringed to anyone—in fact, he can sometimes be a bully.
- an act or instance of shrinking back, bending, or crouching: The gunshots elicited a cringe of terror.
- an instance of being very embarrassed, awkward, or uncomfortable: Some of his outfits are bizarre enough to induce a cringe or two.
- servile or fawning deference.
cringe 近义词
flinch, recoil from danger
更多cringe例句
- Feldstein and Owen bring what I assume is an intended blend of romantic foolhardiness, blind horniness and all-around cringe to their banter scenes, and, well, they sure nail that latter quality.
- No matter what Tokyo pulled off Friday, however, the response was going to be a collective cringe.
- With Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld co-creator and “social assassin” Larry David has brought us more than two decades’ worth of cringe comedy based on his privileged life.
- We live in a golden age of cringe, an art form defined, at least in part, by its grotesquely earnest monuments to politicians.
- I would cringe the same way you would if I felt [the depiction was problematic].
- Maybe you managed not to cringe at his take on the Bard in Shakespeare in Love, making you a stronger person than most.
- The other one is silly and perhaps because of that even more cringe-worthy.
- In hindsight, it is one of the more cringe-inducing campaign promises Barack Obama ever made.
- If the first 12 minutes of game footage released this month is any indication, the writing in Hardline is cringe-worthy at best.
- The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely to those above him.
- And then, that a thought should knock me prone, and make me cringe—from the mere fact of its lowness and meanness!
- The captives were pale and seemed to cringe from the pale interrogation light.
- My grand signior, Vouchsafe a beso las manos, and a cringe Of the last edition.
- Beside a falsify may spoil his cringe, Or making of a leg, in which consists Much of his Court-perfection.