Cringing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRINGING in dictionary:

VERB:
• experience an inward shiver of embarrassment or disgust
• bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner
NOUN:
• acting in a servile way
• an act of cringing.
ADJECTIVE:
• servile
• totally submissive
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to shrink in fear

Words related to CRINGING

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Words that contain CRINGING

cringings13 cringingly17

How to use CRINGING in a sentence

• These pirates who had seemed so dreadful to me, now were nothing more than cringing schoolboys before their master.
• But Kazan lay cringing, not through fear, but because he still recognized the mastery of man.
• May bushmen all in unity Combine with heart and hand, May cursed cringing poverty Be banished from the land.
• He was followed by the Senate of the City, who have just had the cringing cowardice to offer him a ball on next Sunday night.
• Nor does the hillside bother itself about cringing to this, but it, too, gets the same covering as the first one.
• Groote, the porter, came in, cringing and wretched, in the abject state of a man who has lately been drugged and is now slowly recovering.
• Startled at the entrance of the giant, he left off his shadow-gazing and came hastily forward, cringing as he did so.
• And she was the girl who had been so grossly insulted by his villainous captors! The thought stung him, and he turned sharply toward the cringing Curly.
• No wonder that the Bedouin of the desert, crafty, cringing, abject in cities, when he mounts his Arab steed and is off to the burning sands, becomes dignified and courteous.
• I have sickened at my slavery, and subjection, and duplicity, and cringing, first under one master then under another.
• Fifteen minutes later, white and scared, he was sitting in a coach, cringing far back into one of the seats, cursing, for it seemed to him that the train would never start.
• The cowering dog and the cringing boy told Annersley much.
• The wily dealer knew a thousand ways of extracting the largest profits without being obliged, like them, to court patrons, cringing to them, or making them costly presents.
• It is a moral necessity that some men should be earnest and enthusiastic, and impossible for their neighbors to be other than cringing and mean.
• Everywhere men crawling for a job, sinking their manhood for the chance of work, cringing and sneaking and throat-cutting, even in their unionism.
• Next moment he stood cringing before him, his features a mask.
• And so for an hour she sat at the table, cringing away from the silence, starting at intervals, when her imagination tricked her into the belief that sound had begun.
• In an instant their incensed cries had ceased, and they had shrunk, cringing, back in their tracks.
• Between them the prisoners were forced to defile, still cringing and weeping, as the small door opened and they passed into the chamber beyond.
• It is strange how stupid some people are! Bobby had no notion of cringing to any man, and he felt as independent as the Declaration of Independence itself.
• He had owed nothing to protection, nothing to hypocrisy or flattery, eye-service, or cringing.
• My faith will not be the cringing submission of a slave to an absolute despot, but the willing and joyful acceptance by a free man of righteous authority.
• They were in no position to help him, and by January 1562, he was cringing to Spain, and pretending to be Catholic.
• It could be seen at once that, however cringing he might be, he despised the person he addressed.
• There was no cringing, absolutely no cowardice, in him.
• There was something very suggestive of a dog in the cringing attitude of the creature.
• The same withering contempt for the cringing and cowardly is met in every one of them.
• A moment later, the animals reappeared, cringing as they crawled through the bars of the gate.

Similar words containing CRING without suffix ing

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