Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Kicking; hence, skittish; lively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of washing cloth, dipping it in dye, etc., with a wince.
- noun A succession of winces. See
Wince .
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- verb Present participle of
wince . - noun The act by which someone
winces ; agrimace .
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Examples
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Without warning, without a change of expression or twitch of his body, Alnersans smashed his empty beer up against my end-table, Alnersans then took one of the slivers of glass and gouged out the last of the LEDs, Despite wincing from the pain, Alnersans let out a low chuckle as the glow of the light slowly faded.
365 tomorrows » Jared Axelrod : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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Without warning, without a change of expression or twitch of his body, Alnersans smashed his empty beer up against my end-table, Alnersans then took one of the slivers of glass and gouged out the last of the LEDs, Despite wincing from the pain, Alnersans let out a low chuckle as the glow of the light slowly faded.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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The news that Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the greatest cricketer of all time, by a landslide in an Australian newspaper poll, would have, until recently, elicited from me a kind of wincing, squinting chafing at the cerebral lobe that controls the urge to enter into ill-advised and unwinnable contrarian debates.
Why a Sachin Tendulkar is my signature air-cricket shot Barney Ronay 2010
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GREENE: And Jeter himself leaps away from home plate dramatically clutching his wrist, kind of wincing in pain.
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GREENE: And Jeter himself leaps away from home plate dramatically clutching his wrist, kind of wincing in pain.
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Another friend from the time recalls wincing at Generosa’s efforts with the children.
Murder in East Hampton Shnayerson, Michael 2002
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And there are just enough of those moments to inspire a kind of wincing nostalgia for all the performing arts kids, who seemed to crash and burn at a much higher rate than they should have.
Cinematical 2010
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And there are just enough of those moments to inspire a kind of wincing nostalgia for all the performing arts kids, who seemed to crash and burn at a much higher rate than they should have.
Cinematical 2010
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Time's Arrow shortly before the Book Club event, with some "wincing" at the
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Politico's Jonathan Martin wrote today that conservatives were "wincing" at the notion of paying a politician for the privilege of speaking to people in the vaulted first caucus state.
The Caucus 2009
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