Usage examples (34)

• I remember when this show opened and could not wait to see it, but found myself cringing from the cheese of it.
• These may be called the cringing canvass and the flouting canvass.
• Breathing not, she only stared in a wild kind of cringing amazement, as perhaps you might do if you should see a dead man move.
• That idea may offend the smart set and leave diplomats "cringing," but Israel's new foreign minister is hardly the first to express it.