cringing / krɪndʒ /

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cringing2 个定义

v. 无主动词 verb

cringed, cring·ing.

  1. 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.
  2. to feel very embarrassed or awkward; react with discomfort: Some of us cringed at the speaker’s tactless comments.
  3. to seek favor by acting in a servile way; fawn: He has never cringed to anyone—in fact, he can sometimes be a bully.
n. 名词 noun
  1. an act or instance of shrinking back, bending, or crouching: The gunshots elicited a cringe of terror.
  2. an instance of being very embarrassed, awkward, or uncomfortable: Some of his outfits are bizarre enough to induce a cringe or two.
  3. servile or fawning deference.

cringing 近义词

adj. 形容词 adjective

servile

cringing 的近义词 4

更多cringing例句

  1. Cringe is best understood as a cousin of camp, though cringe differs from camp in that camp can still be enjoyable on its own terms.
  2. It's from a combination of excessive cringing and sustained weeping.
  3. The new muskel-Juden replaces the weak, cringing land-less Jew.
  4. But cheering for the message of self-empowerment quickly shifted to cringing.
  5. In memory, he was reviled as a servile race traitor, a cringing sycophant to white wealth and power.
  6. You could almost hear Kagan, Breyer and Ginsburg cringing every time she spoke.
  7. But when he had finished, Sivert Jespersen, with a cringing smile, said: "I think now we had better sing a hymn."
  8. A little cringing shrivelled old man stood up in astonishment.
  9. If the partners despised us for our cringing before them they were right; we were a despicable set.
  10. He stopped and looked back at the people cringing in the doorways.
  11. In those false, fascinating pages he is a consummate scoundrel, "a mere cringing courtier and a pimp."