cringer
- 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 Ingersoll, Robert Green
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
Yet, depend upon it, the cringer has balanced to a nicety the sweets and sours of boot-blacking against the buona mano; the rest is pure commerce.
From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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
