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Adjective
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
Having a dejected or guilty appearance
Cowardly or weak in character
Noun
An excessive willingness to serve or please others
The state in which someone has to accept the control of another person
Verb
Present participle for to react in fear or apprehension
Present participle for to experience an inward shiver of embarrassment or disgust
Present participle for to act in a subservient or submissive manner
Present participle for to bend one's body forwards and downwards, typically as a sign of respect or submission
Present participle for submit to or acknowledge the merit of
Present participle for anticipate with great apprehension or fear
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Adjective
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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
servile
crouching
cowardly
obsequious
submissive
fawning
grovelling
UK
sycophantic
groveling
US
subservient
ingratiating
slavish
abject
bootlicking
toadying
unctuous
humble
slimy
oily
smarmy
brown-nosing
toadyish
soapy
Uriah Heepish
sucky
arse-licking
ass-kissing
flattering
craven
oleaginous
deferential
greasy
crawling
apple-polishing
truckling
self-abasing
snivelling
UK
sniveling
US
obeisant
sycophantish
suckholing
kowtowing
menial
mean
forelock-tugging
docile
compliant
creeping
timid
gushing
prostrate
low
excessively deferential
brownnosing
cowering
obedient
passive
subject
base
arse-kissing
smooth
slick
adulatory
reptilian
suave
cringey
parasitical
glib
gushy
parasitic
spineless
reverential
saponaceous
effusive
mealy-mouthed
subordinate
despicable
bowing and scraping
beggarly
smooth-tongued
self-effacing
creepy
meek
ignoble
acquiescent
unresisting
unassertive
yielding
downtrodden
resigned
under the thumb
under one's thumb
humiliating
timeserving
sycophant
scraping
bowing
conniving
wormlike
all over someone
eating crow
eating humble pie
biddable
duteous
accommodating
dutiful
mild
subdued
spiritless
pliant
ductile
lamblike
dominated
inferior
subjugated
browbeaten
bullied
fulsome
oppressed
resistless
longanimous
urbane
intimidated
repressed
saccharine
dancing
insincere
hagiographical
hagiographic
nagged
cloying
plausible
constrained
uxorious
cajoling
nauseating
hypocritical
buttery
sickening
wheedling
henpecked
slippery
at one's mercy
in one's power
at beck and call
in one's clutches
a slave to
in one's pocket
phoney
UK
creamy
smug
pinguid
phony
US
treated like dirt
led by the nose
tied to someone's apron strings
subjected to nagging
ground down
without a mind of one's own
wife-ridden
in fear of one's partner
under someone's heel
silver-tongued
smooth-talking
smooth-spoken
honey-tongued
complacent
respectful
enslaved
stipendiary
sneaking
compliable
soft
serving
charming
silken
sugary
praising
disarming
complimentary
sweet-talking
honeyed
insinuating
insinuative
ingratiatory
appreciative
lowly
applauding
commending
laudatory
insinuatory
suggestive
encomiastic
encomiastical
persuasive
soft-soaping
admiring
favourable
UK
flannelling
blarneying
overly flattering
gratifying
winsome
winning
endearing
supple
bland
coaxing
favorable
US
credible
silky
eloquent
fast-talking
worshipping
UK
convincing
enthusiastic
glowing
commendatory
blandishing
worshipful
rhapsodic
acclamatory
lionizing
US
eulogistic
highly favourable
rave
hard to resist
unskilled
lionising
UK
worshiping
US
boring
degrading
low-status
routine
dull
humdrum
sugarcoated
sorry
sweet
pleasing
demeaning
vile
low-grade
ignominious
sweet-sounding
blue-collar
unworthy
tedious
common
baseborn
basic
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Adjective
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Having a dejected or guilty appearance
hangdog
downcast
wretched
defeated
abject
browbeaten
cowed
guilty
shamefaced
abashed
crestfallen
disconsolate
furtive
guilty-looking
woebegone
ashamed
bad
blue
brokenhearted
dejected
depressed
despondent
doleful
down
downhearted
droopy
embarrassed
forlorn
gloomy
glum
heartbroken
heartsick
heartsore
heavyhearted
inconsolable
intimidated
joyless
low
low-spirited
melancholic
melancholy
miserable
mournful
sad
saddened
sheepish
sneaking
sorrowful
sorry
uncomfortable
unhappy
woeful
conscience-stricken
cowering
humiliated
cast down
down in the mouth
dispirited
dismal
down in the dumps
heavy-hearted
discouraged
disheartened
desolate
morose
despairing
broken-hearted
distressed
dolorous
grief-stricken
cheerless
fed up
rueful
regretful
disappointed
lugubrious
tearful
moody
pessimistic
in low spirits
remorseful
chap-fallen
contrite
penitent
repentant
sombre
UK
long-faced
hurting
somber
US
upset
grieving
chapfallen
in pain
troubled
dragged
compunctious
choked
brassed off
demoralized
US
sullen
cheesed off
in the dumps
oppressed
apologetic
mirthless
demoralised
UK
anguished
bummed out
in the doldrums
in the pits
sick as a parrot
spiritless
crushed
destroyed
pitiful
down and out
dreary
hopeless
grim
afflicted
piteous
devastated
red-faced
in sackcloth and ashes
funereal
grieved
dismayed
distraught
bleak
guilt-ridden
defeatist
humble
teary
down-hearted
lachrymose
wistful
shot down
out of sorts
all torn up
mortified
in a blue funk
weighed down
as sick as a parrot
singing the blues
discomfited
black
shamed
pitiable
saturnine
dour
depressing
self-reproachful
painful
comfortless
sorrowing
plaintive
daunted
hurt
depressive
tragic
tristful
solemn
mopey
weepy
dull
in despair
sick at heart
deplorable
full of regret
dolent
cut up
ripped
bleeding
cast-down
torn up
taken down
on a downer
chagrined
pathetic
worthless
pained
down-in-the-mouth
sorry for yourself
humbled
tormented
grievous
shattered
emotional
debased
suffering
propitiatory
mourning
enervated
distressing
chastened
attritional
deprecatory
sapped
bereaved
subdued
flat
awkward
lonesome
lonely
penitential
sepulchral
helpless
heavy
elegiac
unconsolable
sour
gutted
grumpy
mopish
crabbed
broody
bummed-out
bereft
self-effacing
surly
sulky
adust
downbeat
heartrending
calamitous
weary
Eeyorish
crummy
meek
ruthful
damp
weeping
morbid
in tears
in grief
in doldrums
bowed down
sunk in gloom
in sorrow
low in spirits
let down
in the toilet
full of sorrow
in mourning
low-down
prostrated
appeasing
displeased
shaken
pensive
heart-sick
lovesick
worried
undermined
apathetic
humourless
UK
humorless
US
perturbed
aggrieved
bothered
brooding
listless
sunk
unsatisfied
torn-up
discontent
troubling
tear-jerking
affecting
disillusioned
dirgeful
deflated
without energy
emo
saddening
depressant
godforsaken
disturbed
concerned
lowered
bowed
feel-bad
prostrate with grief
with one's tail between one's legs
let-down
not happy
off
sluggish
very sad
moping
ugly
churlish
afflicting
lost
unable to be comforted
unable to be consoled
discombobulated
uptight
bugged
sore
shook
antsy
burned
contused
ill-humoured
UK
huffy
have the blahs
feeling down
full of gloom
blue funk
looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny
harrowing
threnodic
lamentable
plangent
dirge-like
with a long face
ticked off
teed off
browned off
peed off
forgotten
homeless
forsaken
abandoned
tortured
luckless
negative
ill-humored
US
beside oneself with grief
in a funk
taken aback
heart-rending
friendless
destitute
uncared-for
discontented
wounded
strained
racked
agonised
UK
agonized
US
ailing
shook up
poor
dark
dragging
cynical
solitary
defenseless
US
defenceless
UK
fruitless
alone
desperate
griefstricken
dysphoric
nostalgic
lamenting
drear
elegiacal
shy
heartbreaking
blushing
self-conscious
flustered
bummed
hapless
powerless
downtrodden
bashful
prudish
down-and-out
discountenanced
submissive
reserved
demeaned
stuttering
deterred
disconcerted
restrained
stammering
muddled
conciliatory
diffident
expiatory
self-incriminating
atoning
supplicating
explanatory
blush to think of
dashed
atrabilious
clouded
dampened
drooping
sagging
on one's knees
base
degraded
contemptible
despicable
ignominious
vile
disgraced
sordid
slavish
servile
reprehensible
ignoble
menial
unworthy
mean
shabby
dishonourable
UK
scungy
detestable
grovelling
UK
outcast
groveling
US
horrible
dishonorable
US
deferent
subservient
dire
gray
US
cold
grey
UK
tenebrous
murky
tenebrific
darkening
sunless
dreich
plutonian
cloudy
Cimmerian
chill
ominous
forbidding
inauspicious
foreboding
disheartening
dreadful
unpropitious
threatening
unfortunate
discouraging
grave
menacing
unfavorable
US
unfavourable
UK
sinister
unpromising
terrible
direful
unlucky
unpleasant
drab
awful
baleful
uninviting
glowering
doomy
shocking
sober
regrettable
adverse
ghastly
portentous
appalling
harsh
bitter
bodeful
dispiriting
ill-boding
horrid
frightful
disagreeable
ill-fated
horrifying
horrendous
frightening
ill
hostile
severe
infelicitous
scowling
unfriendly
horrific
upsetting
macabre
minatory
disadvantageous
crabby
troublesome
gruesome
alarming
serious
foul
ill-omened
frowning
distressful
irritable
fateful
disturbing
dangerous
worrying
oppressive
austere
cross
untimely
lurid
fearsome
doomed
gruff
terrifying
uncommunicative
inopportune
atrocious
nasty
unsociable
intimidating
scary
nightmarish
angry
agonizing
US
lousy
baneful
spooky
grisly
agonising
UK
apocalyptic
shadowy
hideous
inhospitable
bad-tempered
ill-tempered
untoward
traumatic
grouchy
louring
disconcerting
peevish
fearful
minacious
unwelcoming
disastrous
creepy
testy
eerie
daunting
unnerving
execrable
monstrous
unhopeful
rotten
unresponsive
grotesque
fierce
loathsome
terrific
offensive
difficult
rough
dingy
objectionable
afflictive
chilling
displeasing
stern
perilous
dirgelike
stormy
stark
overcast
unamused
doubtful
pouting
unsmiling
sedate
catastrophic
resentful
evil
poignant
lowering
tragical
inconvenient
taciturn
revolting
hard
pouty
dolesome
disappointing
turbulent
disquieting
indignant
cruel
off-putting
cantankerous
dread
hair-raising
spine-chilling
redoubtable
formidable
ruinous
grewsome
moving
sourpussed
petulant
unseasonable
sinistrous
sickening
stroppy
sulking
mumpish
impending
godawful
harmful
destructive
mardy
vexatious
unsuited
unsuitable
querulous
repugnant
repulsive
ill-starred
gut-wrenching
galling
discommodious
inapt
inappropriate
out of humour
unwelcome
parlous
in a bad mood
unconfident
stony
ferocious
squally
inclement
ill-suited
very bad
unearthly
earnest
jinxed
maudlin
critical
rainy
unoptimistic
tempestuous
cursed
windy
crying
intimidatory
gusty
touchy
wintry
US
prejudicial
inexpedient
squalid
premonitory
sobersided
discomforting
mean-looking
disgruntled
deathly
inconducive
unhealthy
warning
wailing
aching
deploring
bewailing
bemoaning
funeral
gory
cataclysmic
crucial
counter
shameful
loury
blowy
misty
piqued
colorless
US
uncivil
sick
detrimental
improper
filthy
snappish
crotchety
inferior
weird
shady
spookish
raw
crusty
discomposing
peeved
embittered
unmannerly
unseemly
damaging
devastating
crushing
scurvy
impoverished
indigent
excruciating
augural
suggestive
prophetic
haunting
mortifying
pressing
wintery
UK
put out
abysmal
waspish
irksome
resigned
po-faced
lackluster
US
lacklustre
UK
deep
distasteful
perturbing
unpalatable
aggressive
malapropos
unfit
repellent
annoying
odious
irritating
disparaging
wrong
opposed
undesirable
exigent
colourless
UK
boring
lifeless
dim
monotonous
repellant
abhorrent
long-suffering
heart-breaking
unpleasing
uncongenial
inadvisable
stony-faced
uninspiring
ill-advised
unexciting
blah
uninteresting
humdrum
unlikely
unencouraging
full of despair
uncaring
funebrial
exequial
deathlike
Stygian
hollow
obscure
unimpassioned
leaden
lorn
melodramatic
supernatural
unmoved
uncertain
companionless
threnodial
demoralizing
US
demoralising
UK
acheronian
touching
dejecting
drained
intolerable
wet
wild
fatal
at
given to looking on the black side
deadly
empty
devitalized
doom-laden
gaunt
thrown
blustery
foggy
cranky
reflective
suicidal
dolorific
heart-wrenching
derisible
unchancy
promising rain
brusque
evil-looking
bearish
doom and gloom
dubious
tough
unprosperous
stirring
choleric
acrimonious
unmitigable
lethal
mortal
fiery
sob story
splenetic
narky
down in dumps
down in mouth
frantic
anxious
life-threatening
suggestive of evil
temperamental
aggravated
fractious
in a bad way
out of luck
raging
injurious
without hope
up the creek
shot-down
dismaying
enraged
sobbing
vexed
perverse
chippy
aloof
languished
broken
having blue devils
languorous
triste
having the blahs
languid
hard-pressed
exacting
treacherous
precarious
jeopardous
rocky
straitened
full of hardship
messy
malificent
doomful
precursive
presaging
malign
prescient
malefic
mephitical
unkind
testing
perplexing
aggravating
hellish
bewildering
vexing
revulsive
frustrating
unamusing
snivelling
UK
whimpering
strabilious
no-win
ill-natured
momentous
significant
foreshadowing
disgraceful
Gothic
close to tears
withdrawn
uncooperative
obstinate
fretful
ornery
unspeakable
urgent
extreme
trashy
shoddy
thunderous
unenthusiastic
blubbering
unenthused
derisory
can't win
prognosticatory
important
predictive
beat
drastic
outrageous
poker-faced
malevolent
volatile
savage
tumultuous
larmoyant
bullying
at the end of your tether
not a prayer
at end of one's rope
in the soup
worrisome
crippling
irretrievable
on the verge of tears
sniveling
US
stressful
unsettling
torturous
steely
flinty
ungentle
rugged
comminatory
terrorizing
US
unwholesome
chronic
paltry
feeble
agitating
unbearable
abominable
unsavory
US
oppressing
near
close
forthcoming
lowery
upcoming
overhanging
terrorising
UK
portending
impendent
poverty-stricken
disapproving
unsympathetic
in a huff
in a mood
in the sulks
in a strop
having a fit of the sulks
put off
exciting
fated
exhilarating
inspiring
intriguing
extraordinary
remarkable
phenomenal
destined
thrilling
easily moved
unsatisfactory
nauseating
hairy
tormenting
fraught
gross
icky
stinking
disgusting
unacceptable
obnoxious
diabolical
troublous
unendurable
down-in-mouth
beat-down
come-apart
caved-in
lacking in confidence
lacking in enthusiasm
having lost heart
with cold feet
lost momentum
grotty
grody
unappealing
yucky
uncool
yukky
hellacious
nauseous
bored
hard-faced
stringent
in floods of tears
with tears in your eyes
tired
gone to pieces
in blue funk
jaded
unsavoury
UK
hurtful
unlovely
concerning
beastly
at hand
wearied
blasé
nerve-racking
nail-biting
extremely bad
nerve-wracking
irritated
annoyed
ghostly
exasperated
irked
pitiless
nightmare
satiated
narked
dissatisfied
surfeited
sated
up to here
hacked off
not best pleased
dirty
sick and tired
God-awful
death-obsessed
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Cowardly or weak in character
unmanly
craven
cowardly
spineless
fearful
soft
timid
feeble
timorous
weak
wimpish
yellow
apprehensive
fainthearted
gutless
ignoble
milksoppish
pusillanimous
wimpy
afraid
dishonorable
US
dishonourable
UK
chicken-hearted
lily-livered
limp-wristed
weak-kneed
chicken
scared
chicken-livered
hesitant
spiritless
frightened
chickenhearted
recreant
faint-hearted
cowering
unheroic
dastardly
milk-livered
weakling
diffident
nervous
boneless
jittery
nervy
irresolute
jumpy
weak-willed
sissy
spooked
yellow-bellied
candy-assed
poor-spirited
nerveless
pigeonhearted
base
effete
frail
characterless
weakened
invertebrate
poltroon
submissive
pathetic
sissified
vacillating
squeamish
forceless
pithless
quaking
daunted
trembling
wishy-washy
namby-pamby
milk-and-water
without a will of your own
afraid of one's shadow
pigeon-hearted
easily frightened
feart
half-hearted
easily scared
wet
retiring
tentative
coy
shy
funky
alarmed
tense
anxious
panicky
terrified
uneasy
petrified
shrinking
worried
intimidated
disquieted
wired
affrighted
horrified
aghast
horror-struck
terrorized
US
scary
hysteric
hysterical
shocked
afeared
frit
scared stiff
rabbity
worried sick
phobic
quivery
in a blue funk
running scared
have cold feet
scared to death
sheepish
in a funk
aflutter
shaky
goose-bumpy
terrorised
UK
disturbed
in a dither
perturbed
agitated
discomposed
solicitous
ineffectual
wussy
ineffective
enervated
impotent
weedy
indecisive
tremulous
unassertive
meek
debilitated
infirm
languid
abject
insipid
inept
impressionable
mousy
enfeebled
lacking courage
mousey
slight
wavering
silly
cowed
wasted
foolish
sapped
unsubstantial
delicate
faint
asthenic
tender
easily led
drippy
softened
prostrate
inadequate
prostrated
down-and-out
unnerved
vapid
daft
white-livered
useless
tame
caitiff
persuasible
persuadable
compliant
weak-minded
fallible
jejune
skittish
nerdy
dismayed
low
powerless
feeble-minded
having cold feet
inefficient
incompetent
coward
reluctant
innocuous
soppy
mean-spirited
niddering
disorganized
US
wasteful
insufficient
fearsome
poltroonish
startled
insignificant
lame
epicene
simpering
colourless
UK
swishy
snowflake
deceitful
offensive
treacherous
sneaking
unprincipled
unethical
tricky
fickle
passive
doubtful
cringey
afraid of one's own shadow
faltering
dithering
gentle
browbeaten
Milquetoast
capricious
bullied
unassured
disorganised
UK
flabby
biddable
colorless
US
bland
limp
vulnerable
errant
defenceless
UK
susceptible
malleable
undetermined
indeterminate
corruptible
supine
hemming and hawing
waffling
yielding
unreliable
unsure
undependable
imperfect
erring
flawed
resistless
without guts
changeable
flavourless
UK
mediocre
watered-down
listless
sapless
flavorless
US
dull
easily tempted
defenseless
US
sookie
cowhearted
backward
worthless
paper tiger
no guts
having the willies
exhausted
drained
spent
decrepit
worn out
vitiated
washed-out
declining
played out
more ❯
Noun
▲
An excessive willingness to serve or please others
servility
obsequiousness
sycophancy
fawning
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
submissiveness
subservience
toadyism
unctuousness
abjection
bootlicking
self-abasement
slavishness
toadying
meanness
oiliness
abjectness
apple-polishing
baseness
cravenness
humility
sliminess
smarminess
arse-licking
ass-kissing
excessive deference
brownnosing
flattery
sucking up
adulation
kowtowing
truckling
sweet talk
cajolery
blandishments
compliments
honeyed words
wheedling
blarney
praise
ingratiation
soft words
coaxing
blandishment
soft soap
false praise
smooth talk
flannel
reverence
fulsomeness
soft-soap
simpering
spiel
currying favour
buttering up
cosying up
adoration
worship
deference
idolization
puffery
glorification
veneration
admiration
inveiglement
exaltation
awe
gratification
worshiping
US
overpraise
applause
commendation
incense
taffy
butter
smarm
worshipping
UK
plaudits
laudation
glozing
guyver
cajolement
smoodging
eyewash
cuddling up
ego massage
charm offensive
pats on the back
lip salve
allurement
enticement
sweet words
ingratiating
crawling
creeping
exaggeration
compliance
bowing and scraping
wonderment
wonder
charm
cobblers
oil
honey
infatuation
marveling
US
a line
pumping up
puff
marvelling
UK
respect
hero-worship
admiring
lionizing
US
lionization
US
idolizing
US
glory
homage
honour
UK
devotion
honor
US
idolatry
eulogies
high regard
tributes
praising
accolades
deification
magnifying
magnification
eulogiums
lionising
UK
lionisation
UK
idolising
UK
hero worship
extravagant flattery
audation
servile flattery
fulsome praise
sweet-talk
arse-kissing
gallantry
flummery
jive
hokum
brown-nosing
encomium
eulogy
flattering
snow
mush
palaver
smoke
approbation
stroke
laud
tribute
weasel words
pretty speech
snow job
fine words
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state in which someone has to accept the control of another person
submission
compliance
obedience
deference
acquiescence
docility
submissiveness
conformity
dutifulness
subservience
yielding
tractability
meekness
biddability
servility
malleability
passivity
resignation
surrender
duteousness
assent
tameness
tractableness
manageability
patience
subordination
subjection
obsequiousness
bowing
humility
unassertiveness
capitulation
obeisance
nonresistance
humbleness
bootlicking
appeasement
capitulating
consent
defeatism
passivism
pliabilty
prostration
recreancy
submitting
non-resistance
giving in
self-abasement
self-effacement
acceptance of one's fate
backing down
respect
compliancy
accordance
conformability
duty
agreement
observance
reverence
amenability
willingness
complaisance
orderliness
quietness
amenableness
respectfulness
biddableness
forbearance
passiveness
acceptance
adherence
caving in
lowliness
conformance
sufferance
pliability
concession
abidance
piety
reluctant agreement
controllability
manipulability
accession
vail
sycophancy
timidity
weakness
fearfulness
concurrence
discipline
diffidence
throwing in the towel
truce flag
flag of truce
retreat
demureness
observance of the rules
observance of the law
loyalty
faithfulness
fortitude
endurance
conforming
devotion
conceding
concord
relenting
impressionability
allegiance
lack of resistance
stoicism
tolerance
veneration
devoutness
mindfulness
fealty
long-suffering
longanimity
fatalism
servitude
cave in
fear
phlegm
forbearing
inferiority
resignedness
acknowledgement
UK
modesty
patientness
acknowledgment
US
white flag
lack of protest
lack of complaint
acceptance of the inevitable
relegation
dependence
demotion
inferior
reduction
inferior status
inferior position
secondary status
secondary position
receptiveness
openness
susceptibility
pliancy
suggestibility
vulnerability
accommodativeness
receptivity
ingenuousness
responsiveness
amiability
good-naturedness
agreeableness
sensitivity
impressionableness
cooperativeness
peacefulness
gentleness
open-mindedness
susceptibleness
vulnerableness
ductility
obligingness
accessibility
readiness
docileness
kindness
courtesy
friendliness
politeness
perviousness
persuadability
suggestibleness
credulousness
credulity
cooperation
flexibility
reactivity
reactiveness
gullibility
flattery
perceptivity
perceptiveness
unctuousness
smarminess
sweet talk
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to react in fear or apprehension
shrinking
recoiling
flinching
blenching
quailing
shying
cowering
wincing
crouching
dodging
ducking
blanching
squinching
starting
getting cold feet
drawing back
pulling back
shying away
shuddering
quaking
faltering
wavering
balking
US
baulking
UK
backing away
trembling
swerving
shaking
shivering
shrinking back
shirking
backing off
retreating
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
shrinking away
quivering
demurring
squirming
reeling
withdrawing
jumping
jumping back
taking fright
showing fear
falling back
recoiling from
flinching from
jerking
hesitating
jolting
bucking
drooping
fainting
quavering
shaking with fear
twitching
refusing
springing back
jerking back
retiring
huddling
boggling
slinking
scrupling
starting back
grimacing
having cold feet
turning
jibbing
scowling
gasping
pulling a face
reacting
making a face
shrinking from
shying away from
hiding
dithering
shilly-shallying
vacillating
ricocheting
ricochetting
hesitating to
scrupling about
vacillating about
hanging back from
having scruples about
hanging back
having misgivings about
thinking twice about
having qualms about
rebelling
feeling repugnance
showing repugnance
pulling back from
baulking at
more ❯
“Ideal as a watchdog, this dog will neither be aggressive nor
cringe
with fear when accosting a stranger.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to experience an inward shiver of embarrassment or disgust
squirming
blushing
wincing
flushing
writhing
going red
feeling ashamed
feeling embarrassed
feeling mortified
feeling sheepish
suffering embarrassment
wincing with embarrassment
“She stepped into Jeremy's room, and the smell of stale alcohol made her
cringe
in disgust.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to act in a subservient or submissive manner
grovelling
UK
groveling
US
crawling
kowtowing
cowering
fawning
toadying
truckling
bending
bowing
kneeling
quailing
stooping
wooing
blandishing
bootlicking
creeping
crouching
flattering
soft-soaping
bowing and scraping
brown-nosing
pandering to
sweet-talking
curry favoring with
curry favouring with
getting round
dancing attendance on
ingratiating oneself with
paying court to
sucking up to
falling all over
eating dirt
making up to
apple-polishing
buttering up
sucking up
playing up to
pandering
brownnosing
licking someone's boots
courting
fussing
fawning on
rubbing up the right way
prostrating oneself
cajoling
stroking
massaging
oiling
humbling oneself
abasing yourself
creeping to
truckling to
honeying up
paying court
laying it on
kissing one's feet
falling on one's knees
submitting
yielding
deferring
prostrating
giving in
kissing-up
behaving obsequiously
kowtowing to
toadying to
crawling to
currying favour
curry favoring
abasing oneself before
knuckling under
smoodging to
scratching one's back
abasing oneself to
catering to
keeping someone sweet
eating crow
demeaning oneself to
bowing and scrape to
conceding
folding
giving way
bending the knee
smoodging
making up
lying down and rolling over
saying uncle
going along with
caving in
toing the mark
eulogizing
US
praising
cultivating
kisses up to
seeking the favour of
ingratiating yourself
trying to get on the good side of
eating humble pie
humiliating yourself
prostrating oneself before
fawning over
trying to win over
cringing before
grovelling before
surrendering
smarming around
snowing
bowing and scrape before
inviting
laying it on with a trowel
scraping
jollying
singing the praises of
falling over oneself for
laying it on thick
praising to the skies
cottoning
debasing
slavering
praising to excess
eulogising
UK
buddying up
abasing
caving in to
bowing down
falling at feet
kissing the feet of
prostrating oneself to
grovelling to
wheedling
humoring
US
sniveling
US
revering
pampering
imploring
snivelling
UK
genuflecting
humouring
UK
showing respect for
making much of
bowing to
deferring to
demeaning oneself
adulating
blarneying
honeying
overpraising
flannelling
flanneling
glorifying
charming
beslavering
hero-worshipping
building up
spreading it on
rubbing the right way
curtsying
bobbing a curtsy
making a leg
complimenting
cozying up
getting in with
respecting
kissing someone's feet
puffing
admiring
commending
belauding
expressing admiration for
panegyrizing
inveigling
paying tribute to
lauding
waxing lyrical about
paying blandishments to
softening
conning
salving
selling
smooth-talking
saying nice things about
getting next to
working over
complimenting excessively
working on
sweetening up
elevating
worshipping
UK
lionizing
US
worshiping
US
adoring
gushing
lionising
UK
putting on a pedestal
more ❯
“The poor puppy would
cringe
when his master raised the rolled-up newspaper.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bend one's body forwards and downwards, typically as a sign of respect or submission
stooping
bowing
crouching
bending
kneeling
squatting
hunching
scooching
ducking
leaning
inclining
bending down
hunkering down
bending over
bowing down
crouching down
leaning over
squating down
leaning down
hunching down
bending forward
leaning forward
walking with a stoop
huddling
cowering
bobbing down
shrinking
squinching
couching
scrunching
hunkering
ducking down
stooping down
sitting on your haunches
sitting
roosting
settling
perching
sitting on your heels
dipping
groveling
US
wincing
quailing
grovelling
UK
quatting
kneeling down
hunching over
scrooching down
bobbing
nodding
lowering
genuflecting
curtsying
dropping a curtsy
bending the knee
dropping
inclining your body
making a bow
crawling
getting on all fours
nutating
huddling up
curling up
curtseying
arching
greeting
declining
arcking
arcing
prostrating oneself
kowtowing
drooping
salaaming
taking a knee
inclining the head
doing obeisance
making obeisance
making an obeisance
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for submit to or acknowledge the merit of
deferring
submitting
yielding
acceding
acquiescing
bowing
capitulating
surrendering
truckling
giving way
honoring
US
honouring
UK
respecting
accepting
accommodating
adapting
adjusting
admitting
agreeing
agreeing with
assenting
buckling
caving
complying
complying with
conceding
fawning
giving in
knuckling
knuckling under
kowtowing
obeying
succumbing
bowing to
giving in to
Verb
▲
Present participle for anticipate with great apprehension or fear
dreading
fearing
shrinking from
apprehending
cowering at
cringing from
misdoubting
quaking
shuddering
shuddering at
trembling
trembling at
worrying about
feeling apprehensive about
flinching from
having forebodings about
quailing from
anticipating with horror
cringing at the thought of
having cold feet
shuddering to think about
trembling to think about
having cold feet about
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