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- noun Plural form of
cringer .
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Examples
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Once again, Mr. Cole made his favorite groan-worthy joke about "how amfAR" the cause still has to go, but at least on Wednesday he admitted he'd used the quip several times before, much to the chagrin "of all the cringers."
Superstar 'Friends' Reunite Marshall Heyman 2011
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And as hippiepooter says, the oft-stated platitudes about us needing to understand Muslims better are never challenged by the PC cultural cringers at the BBC.
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Only downside, the ADHD atheists, cultural cringers and appeasement fraternity that infest this otherwise delightful forum.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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But none of these cringers is as bad as mistiming the moment of undress.
Saving Face Andy Robin 2005
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But none of these cringers is as bad as mistiming the moment of undress.
Saving Face Andy Robin 2005
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And so suddenly this new voice comes in, this brash, defiant, anti authoritarian voice comes in, and this leads directly to the 1855 edition of "Leaves of Grass," and in the preface of which he denounces what he calls "the swarms of cringers, doe faces, lice of politics that infest the whole American government."
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Naturally: cringers and lickspittlesdo not let themselves be knocked dead for their master.
Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925
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It wins thousands of adherents who are at best sycophants and cringers, men who will not dare express their thoughts for fear their missionary masters will be angry at them and cut off their means of living.
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My first reason was his temperament; I knew his having to come to me would make him bow before me in spirit, as he was a tyrant, and tyrants are always cringers.
The Plum Tree David Graham Phillips 1889
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He finds that many years before he was born his country was divided out between certain successful robbers, flatterers, cringers and crawlers, and that in consequence of such division not only he himself, but a large majority of his fellow-men are tenants, renters, occupying the surface of the earth only at the pleasure of others.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews Robert Green Ingersoll 1866
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