Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who cringes; one characterized by servility or cowardice; a sycophant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who cringes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
cringes orshies away .
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Examples
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Tape music was great, will they keep that soundtrack? mr sifter absolutely amazing ! i especially love the techno battlecat/cringer portraits at the top ! i really hope to see a masters of the universe movie soon ,that cartoon was one of the fondest things of my childhood dorkbot
Cool Stuff: Under The Influence Art Show: Masters of the Universe | /Film 2009
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But it needs also to be said that he has produced nothing in these years up to the standard of Blood Meridian and Suttree, and that he has written one cringer, No Country For Old Men.
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If Jones dines with a lord, Smith never says Jones is a courtier and cringer.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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Yet, depend upon it, the cringer has balanced to a nicety the sweets and sours of boot-blacking against the _buona mano_; the rest is pure commerce.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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It is not true that the business patronage of the Negro is confined to his own race, nor is it true that he is a cringer, and solicits patronage among the whites because of the fact that he is a colored man.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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God -- and why should He love a cringer more than I do?
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913
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Do you not know the enormous, the almost insurmountable difficulty there is in not bullying meekness, in not responding to the cringer with a kick?
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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If Jones dines with a lord, Smith never says Jones is a courtier and cringer.
The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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In net, Michael Leighton rebounded after a rough game that got him pulled early, but he gave up a cringer of a goal when fourth-liner
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It was the biggest cringer of a comparison since Bill Simmons likened Tiger's return to that of Muhammad Ali, particularly considering the backstory.
Deadspin Katie Baker 2010
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