Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a cringing manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a cringing manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
cringing manner; while cringing, or so as to make onecringe .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Which just made it even more cringingly hilarious.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Which just made it even more cringingly hilarious.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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Andrews's exploration of what it's like to be young, black and single in Washington, D.C., is at times cringingly frank.
Review of "Bitch Is the New Black" by Helena Andrews Post 2010
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We rapidly filled in the site: her bio, cringingly titled 'Story of My Life,' a story of awakening called 'Shift Happens,' and 'Kids on Board,' the ever-important board of directors, which was mostly just a list of people helping Rielle.
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Andrews's exploration of what it's like to be young, black and single in Washington, D.C., is at times cringingly frank.
Review of "Bitch Is the New Black" by Helena Andrews Post 2010
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The only way I ever got anything into submission was by cringingly showing my scribbles to friends who also had scribbles, and having them go, OMG, woman!
msagara: Good Enough is Never Enough. Maybe... msagara 2009
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Bingsop's Fables force one to wonder cringingly about one's own follies and vanity.
Eric Dezenhall: Stanley Bing's "Morals" Pierce Corporate Treacle Eric Dezenhall 2011
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The headmen of the village were cringingly afraid of him, and for good reason, as we were not overlong in finding out.
Chapter 15 2010
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This could be a delight or it could be cringingly twee.
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Which just made it even more cringingly hilarious.
Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011
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