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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

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

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

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

If Jones dines with a lord, Smith never says Jones is a courtier and cringer.

From The Book of Snobs by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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