Words and phrases that have a meaning related to cringing: (73 results)
Often used in the same context:
wince, squirming, shudder, smirking, aghast, muttering, tittered, drooling, chortling, groan, dreading, snickering, pained, giggling, fretting, blushing, laughing, cackling, salivating, horrified, chuckling, sniggering, cowering, grumble, sneering, pitying, seething, mortified, tutting, sighing, shrieking, guffawing, moaning, quaking, frowning, shrinking, fear, uneasiness, dependant, disquietude, doubting, sycophants, timidity, acrimony, cloudy, compulsion, degenerate, destitute, disquiet, dread, fawning, hurt, lie, marvel, meanness
Appears in the definition of:
bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, obsequiousness, servility, subservience, suck up, toady, truckle
Synonyms:
Also try:coward, cowardly, fearful, groveling, grovelling, submissive, wormlike, wormy
— Adjectives for cringing: more, less, much, slavish, servile, most, half, abject, simple, longer, loud, more...
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