cringing's Usage Examples:

Concept News Central admitted, "Can’t Help Falling in Love may have some cringingly corny scenes" but ".

with long curly locks and rouged lips, half-cringing, half-posturing seductively.

[moving] between cringing, shuffling humility and outrageous arrogance.

It is cringingly, rewardingly intimate.

In the novel Dickens describes him: He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely.

Cultcha commented that Birds was "something quite magical, but at times cringingly twee and fluffy, but in terms of artistic endeavour, it"s a tour-de-force.

classical music, rather than "second guessing youthful tunes and getting it cringingly wrong".

and efficient French criminal mastermind and confidence trickster into a cringing sidekick of Grytpype-Thynne, who is often disparaging of his manic behaviour.

Nathan Hale should have pre-emptively run up the white flag and then cringingly taken the blood guilt of potential assassins and tyrants upon itself.

His torture scenes are excruciatingly well written – I found myself cringing at two of them in particular.

final nonsense by ascribing the happy ending to divine intervention, in a cringingly sententious epilogue.

the role of Br"er Rabbit in Disney"s Song of the South (1946) and as the clownish, cringing, tremulous-voiced shyster pseudo-lawyer Algonquin J.

its focus on bodily feelings that audiences may experience like crying, cringing, or yawning while reading.

Synonyms:

grovelling, wormy, groveling, submissive, wormlike,

Antonyms:

disobedient, insubordinate, assertive, proud, domineering,