0 present participle of cringe --
1 to suddenly move away from someone or something because you are frightened --
I'm not cringing about it, but it's not my favorite piece.
Shyness or cringing in the show ring is alone sufficient to disqualify a dog in that country.
It is too late for cringing apologies.
In other words, the poor, cringing soul who has been fired, the poor, terrified personnel director, the foreman who did the firing and everyone else involved must wait 13½ weeks.
American traders need us as much as we need them, and there is neither need nor justification for this cringing policy of appeasement to her immediate power.
They are cringing before this company, are afraid of this company.
She must be cringing with embarrassment at his remarks.
I do not find anything at all "modest"or"cringing" on the part of the local authorities.
