Cringing
[krindʒiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cringe
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Crouching, fawning, servile, sneaking, obsequious.
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Examples
- Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The Epicurean was determined to make Humanity go its way without cringing to capricious gods and without sacrificing Free-Will. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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