Cringe
To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
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Cringe Quotations
Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
Julie Christie
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.
Emma Watson
Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
Fiona Apple
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw
I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.
Madonna Ciccone
I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge.
Christina Hendricks
I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
Sheryl Crow
I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.
Mark-Paul Gosselaar
I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.
Jude Law
Cringe Translations
cringe in German is kriechen
cringe in Spanish is encogerse
cringe in Swedish is svansa, krypa
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