cringe
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- v draw back, as with fear or pain
- v show submission or fear
- Here's another cringe worthy story of the day, with KT's fellow "journalist" Mark Halperin getting his Bush love going with Matthews.
- Roger Nelson's formal credentials are in the respectable field of experimental psychology, but the project he has been working on since 1998 would make plenty of scientists cringe.
- Maines, 31, Emily Robison, 33, and Martie Maguire, 36, didn't cringe and curtsy.