Crossword-Solution: CRINGING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cringing | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Cringe |
We have 45 clues for the answer “CRINGING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Reacting to an awkward moment, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Reacting to a super awkward comment, say | 1 answer |
| subservience | 49 answers |
| shamefacedness | 49 answers |
| fulsome | 51 answers |
| ABASEMENT | 51 answers |
| worsening | 51 answers |
| overhanging | 51 answers |
| bashfulness | 51 answers |
| cloying | 52 answers |
| Wallowing | 52 answers |
| Opprobrium | 52 answers |
| grovelling | 53 answers |
| disesteem | 53 answers |
| cowering | 54 answers |
| servility | 54 answers |
| Ignominy | 56 answers |
| Mortification | 56 answers |
| Obloquy | 56 answers |
| desecration | 57 answers |
| Disrepute | 58 answers |
| stigma | 58 answers |
| disapprobation | 59 answers |
| Decadence | 61 answers |
| Compunction | 63 answers |
| Fawning | 63 answers |
| Odium | 64 answers |
| Scandal | 64 answers |
| slur | 64 answers |
| Contempt | 65 answers |
| Indignity | 65 answers |
| tame | 66 answers |
| forbearing | 68 answers |
| dishonour | 69 answers |
| Abject | 69 answers |
| Remorse | 72 answers |
| Regret | 72 answers |
| retrogression | 73 answers |
| Blot | 73 answers |
| Degeneration | 74 answers |
| baseness | 74 answers |
| Lowering. | 75 answers |
| corruption | 76 answers |
| reproach | 82 answers |
| Insult | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with CRINGING (5)
After a moment’s pause, he said deliberately,— “I accept.” “Go and wait outside then,” said Chauvelin, “and remember to stick to your bargain, or by Heaven, I will keep to mine.” With a final, most abject and cringing bow, the old Jew shuffled out of the room.
The circle of warriors about the cringing captive drew closer and closer to their prey as they danced in wild and savage abandon to the maddening music of the drums.
The foreigner came here poor, beggarly, cringing, and subservient, ready to doff his cap to the meanest native of the household.
Luker was, in every respect, such an inferior creature to the Indian—he was so vulgar, so ugly, so cringing, and so prosy—that he is quite unworthy of being reported, at any length, in these pages.
Even the good people of the neighborhood, never accustomed to look below the externals of appearance and manner, saw in his shrinking face and awkward motions only the signs of a cringing, abject soul.
Quotes with CRINGING (3)
I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in ... the edit.", The Guardian, 20 February 2010]
But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. (“Letter To Stalin”)
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2019).