cringe
verb (used without object)
to shrink back, bend, or crouch, especially in fear, pain, or servility; cower: They cringed and bowed before the king.
cringer
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a word derived from
cringe.
Example Sentences
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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
The tyrant is a cringer in power; a cringer is a tyrant out of power.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
He, too, is no cringer to images of beasts in purple.
From Caesar Dies by Talbot Mundy
If Jones dines with a lord, Smith never says Jones is a courtier and cringer.
From The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
