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Meanings of cringing in inglês

Totally submissive.

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        Examples for "grovelling"
        Examples for "grovelling"
        1
        The dethroned monster lay grovelling on the floor, not daring to move.
        From Jest to Earnest
        2
        The soldier was on his knees, grovelling with face against the floor.
        Love under Fire
        3
        Perkins screamed with mad fear and flung himself grovelling upon the floor.
        The Skylark of Space
        4
        She was pleased that all the Court should see her thus grovelling.
        A History of the Four Georges, Volume I
        5
        He paused, and fell back again to the ground, grovelling and speechless.
        Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
        1
        Let it never be forgotten that there is nothing groveling in Odd-Fellowship.
        The Jericho Road
        2
        Somehow it sounded like groveling and I've never been good at that.
        The last illusion
        3
        There's still the groveling next generation of underdog letters to send out.
        Choke
        4
        He was shipped off to the Tower of London and died groveling.
        Quicksilver
        5
        Hammer was a ruthless tyrant, but he didn't tolerate groveling or cowardice.
        Avalon
        1
        You're gonna drink to Crystal's memory with a glass of wormy water?
        The burglar in the closet
        2
        All bruised, wormy or injured apples should be discarded at picking time.
        Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 / Embracing the Tra...
        3
        The arms of our backyard's apricot tree drooped with wormy fruit.
        Mysterious Skin
        4
        A few raindrops trickled onto the wormy chest they stood upon.
        Future Lovecraft
        5
        So if a bird happens to eat a parasitized caterpillar, it's bye-bye wormy.
        Wired
        1
        It has an excessively long slender muzzle, and a wormlike extensile tongue.
        The Naturalist on the River Amazons
        2
        Some are hairy caterpillars; others are smooth skinned and more wormlike.
        Vegetable gardening for dummies
        3
        Two unequal branches of the early wormlike organisms shrank into strong protective shells.
        The Story of Evolution
        4
        From other mouths, wormlike tentacles erupted, wriggled in the air, withdrew.
        Phantoms
        5
        The tentacles protruding from her pinched, wormlike face writhed in irritation.
        Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
        Usage of cringing in inglês
        1
        Tracy Morgan's interview on the US Today show left us all cringing.
        News.com.au
        2
        He stopped and looked back at the people cringing in the doorways.
        The Stutterer
        3
        He saw men cringing as they neared the flames, heard children cry.
        A Dance with Dragons
        4
        Marco was holding it at arms' length, almost cringing away from it.
        Strata
        5
        The spirit loses its hopefulness and independence and becomes servile and cringing.
        Usury / A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
        6
        Beneath the moon Tarzan held the cringing figure upon its shaking feet.
        Jungle Tales of Tarzan
        7
        I watched while the cringing Lesser families approached you swearing their loyalty.
        Blood and Bone
        8
        The thought stung him, and he turned sharply toward the cringing Curly.
        Glen of the High North
        9
        Nudging the glass a little; cringing as it crashed to the floor.
        The lake
        10
        He was impudently cringing to us and systematically insolent to the officers.
        The Nigger Of The "Narcissus": A Tale Of The Forecastle
        11
        In all his cringing attitudes, the God-fugitive is now too plainly known.
        Moby Dick
        12
        She waited, cringing not only with disgust now, but fear as well.
        Flesh Eaters
        13
        He shook the vampire's hand, inwardly cringing at the man's cold touch.
        Last Blood
        14
        So says the official, returning to his august master with cringing servility.
        Our World; Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter
        15
        You know, he was a frightened child -and a cringing one.
        Self's punishment
        16
        He stalked up to the cringing Harper, thrust his face toward him.
        The 4-D Doodler
        About this term
        Cringing through the time
        Cringing across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
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