Antonyms for cringingcring·ing

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1. cringing

   Antonyms:
   adventurous, bold, brave, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, heroic, intrepid, undaunted, undismayed, valiant, venturesome

   Synonyms:
   afraid, cowardly, faint-hearted, fearful, frightened, pusillanimous, shrinking, timid, timorous

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1. cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormyadjective

   totally submissive

   Antonyms:
   domineering

   Synonyms:
   wormy, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, worm-eaten, vermiculate

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1. cringingadjective

   Synonyms:
   truckling, fawning, servile, obsequious, slavish

How to use cringing in a sentence?

1. Krista Gray:

   A mother should never be cringing, shaking or have cracked or bleeding nipples.

2. Sheila Kruger:

   We're all just kind of cringing and saying,' We do not want to do this again,'.

3. Frank Davis:

   The May jobs number is pointing in the direction of a more likely interest-rate hike. The market is cringing at that idea.

4. Kevin Landis:

   The Dow Jones is such a backwards-looking list, I cringed when Intel and Microsoft were added, i'm cringing today. Let's hope Apple can defy the forces of history.

5. Ben Emmerson:

   It was a crass and clumsy gesture from an increasingly isolated tin pot despot, a morally deranged authoritarian who was at that very moment clinging desperately onto political power in the face of international sanctions and a rising chorus of international condemnation, after years of negotiation and appeasement, the world has lost its patience now with Mr Putin's judo politics and his cringing hard-man photo opportunities.

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