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When Young Master Johnson verbalizes his existential crisis, it’s a cringer: “There are no courses in college about how to be a hardworking, productive rich person.”

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2016

So he may come to be half cringer and half bully.

From John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment by Brummitt, Dan B.

Do you not know the enormous, the almost insurmountable difficulty there is in not bullying meekness, in not responding to the cringer with a kick?

From The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth

He, too, is no cringer to images of beasts in purple.

From Caesar Dies by Mundy, Talbot

For it did not answer; M. P. had only a double disdain for the cringer, knowing nothing herself of the pitfalls that lie in wait for a temperament like Laura's.

From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel