Synonyms for cringing
cring·ing

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1. cringing

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

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

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1. cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormyadjective

   totally submissive

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

   Antonyms:
   domineering

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1. cringingadjective

   Synonyms:
   crouching, fawning, servile, sneaking, obsequious

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1. cringingadjective

   Synonyms:
   truckling, fawning, servile, obsequious, slavish

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1. 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.

2. Pat Cash:

   Bernard Tomic can do a lot worse than that to ruin the image that we've created. But a lot of ex-players are cringing, Aussies, especially... the guys who started this pro circuit. We wouldn't be here without these guys.

3. Krista Gray:

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

4. Sheila Kruger:

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

5. Kevin Landis:

   The Dow Jones is such a backwards-looking list, I cringed when Intel (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) were added, i'm cringing today. Let's hope Apple can defy the forces of history.