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What is another word for
cringing
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Adjective
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
Prepared to obey others unquestioningly
Craven or cowardly in nature or manner
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 adopt a position where the knees are bent and the upper body is brought forward and down
Present participle for to anticipate with great apprehension or fear
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Adjective
▲
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
obsequious
servile
submissive
ingratiating
sycophantic
fawning
grovelling
UK
bootlicking
unctuous
oily
toadying
smarmy
subservient
groveling
US
slimy
soapy
sucky
brown-nosing
Uriah Heepish
oleaginous
flattering
abject
toadyish
greasy
slavish
arse-licking
ass-kissing
deferential
kowtowing
truckling
sycophantish
sniveling
US
brownnosing
snivelling
UK
humble
crawling
reverential
gushing
subordinate
parasitic
spineless
suckholing
parasitical
apple-polishing
mealy-mouthed
smooth
slick
suave
adulatory
glib
obeisant
gushy
saccharine
effusive
self-abasing
respectful
compliable
compliant
forelock-tugging
smooth-tongued
arse-kissing
bowing and scraping
craven
excessively deferential
creeping
self-effacing
timeserving
bowing
all over someone
prostrate
wormlike
cowardly
fulsome
urbane
insincere
hagiographical
hagiographic
cloying
plausible
cajoling
nauseating
hypocritical
buttery
sickening
wheedling
slippery
saponaceous
phoney
UK
creamy
smug
pinguid
phony
US
creepy
silver-tongued
smooth-talking
smooth-spoken
honey-tongued
soft
charming
serving
ingratiatory
insinuating
silken
sugary
silky
honeyed
disarming
lavish
polished
extravagant
enthusiastic
encomiastic
rhapsodic
polite
courteous
civil
mannerly
sophisticated
gentlemanly
insinuative
OTT
civilized
US
refined
over the top
gracious
genial
acclamatory
eulogistic
sweet-talking
complimentary
civilised
UK
excessive
appreciative
overdone
unreserved
unrestrained
exuberant
encomiastical
expansive
emotional
ebullient
mushy
sentimental
cultivated
gallant
lyrical
debonair
genteel
chivalrous
considerate
velvety
persuasive
decorous
eloquent
sleek
insinuatory
suggestive
obliging
decent
courtly
cool
despicable
fine
pleasant
svelte
over-effusive
soft-soaping
tactful
cordial
pleasing
hyped up
over-enthusiastic
laid on with a trowel
fast-talking
sociable
self-possessed
media-savvy
well-bred
well mannered
supple
coaxing
admiring
generous
profuse
flannelling
blarneying
base
overly flattering
gratifying
unresisting
lowly
ignoble
blandishing
worshipful
lionizing
US
winning
laudatory
faithful
dependent
rave
lionising
UK
highly favourable
praising
applauding
commending
assured
sugarcoated
kind
ladylike
overgenerous
respectable
accommodating
over-appreciative
sweet
couth
together
facile
collected
composed
kindly
hospitable
maudlin
unruffled
complaisant
possessed
sweet-sounding
self-assured
oiled
coolheaded
equable
sedate
royal
congenial
overemotional
mawkish
nostalgic
blubbery
voluble
approachable
self-composed
well-mannered
overacted
bathetic
icky
corny
affectionate
moonstruck
jejune
inane
demonstrative
languishing
overenthusiastic
impressionable
affected
dreamy
idealistic
insipid
sebaceous
loving
whipped
velvetlike
silklike
dewy-eyed
lovey-dovey
waxy
of an even consistency
lubricative
lubricous
mellifluous
smeary
honeylike
lubricant
oil-soaked
cultured
worldly
affable
dignified
diplomatic
politic
poised
agreeable
formal
bland
impeccable
distingué
worldly-wise
soft-spoken
more ❯
“
Cringing
at his boss's every command, the employee displayed an excessively obedient demeanor in hopes of gaining favor.”
Adjective
▲
Prepared to obey others unquestioningly
subservient
submissive
servile
obsequious
deferential
compliant
fawning
obedient
abject
humble
sycophantic
dutiful
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
yielding
meek
slavish
bootlicking
obeisant
biddable
acquiescent
docile
accommodating
passive
pliant
unassertive
duteous
resigned
menial
subdued
spiritless
timid
truckling
ductile
mild
sniveling
US
snivelling
UK
lamblike
resistless
longanimous
subject
cowering
downtrodden
dancing
self-abasing
self-effacing
in one's clutches
in one's pocket
in one's power
a slave to
at one's mercy
under one's thumb
under the thumb
at beck and call
ingratiating
toadying
toadyish
craven
humiliating
crawling
creeping
deferent
humiliated
dominated
subjugated
browbeaten
bullied
oppressed
repressed
intimidated
nagged
unresisting
uxorious
constrained
treated like dirt
led by the nose
wife-ridden
henpecked
in fear of one's partner
tied to someone's apron strings
subjected to nagging
ground down
under someone's heel
without a mind of one's own
amenable
tractable
malleable
obliging
manageable
willing
respectful
pliable
governable
agreeable
tame
conforming
controllable
conformable
complying
nonresistant
law-abiding
non-resisting
consenting
patient
forbearing
spineless
acceding
assenting
supine
accepting
cooperative
flexible
agreeing
unresistant
approving
persuadable
tolerating
persuasible
tolerant
unprotesting
nonresisting
domesticated
comformable
obeying
giving-in
bowing down
uncomplaining
subordinate
soft
surrendering
amiable
placable
lowly
kowtowing
easy
convincible
disciplinable
trainable
teachable
handleable
acquiescing
suasible
assentive
susceptive
game
ready
easily persuaded
Uriah Heepish
complaisant
reverential
regardful
disciplined
good
attentive
devoted
venerating
loyal
faithful
observant
docious
honoring
US
hearsome
sheeplike
unquestioning
agentic
honouring
UK
well-behaved
well-trained
under control
well disciplined
well trained
wrapped around finger
on a string
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Craven or cowardly in nature or manner
cringey
cowardly
craven
timorous
timid
feeble
soft
abject
cowering
shrinking
weak
wimpish
wimpy
spineless
fearful
yellow
gutless
pusillanimous
milksoppish
ignoble
apprehensive
fainthearted
lily-livered
chicken-hearted
limp-wristed
dishonorable
US
dishonourable
UK
unmanly
afraid
weak-kneed
scared
chicken
quaking
unheroic
recreant
sissy
spiritless
faint-hearted
trembling
wet
yellow-bellied
pigeon-hearted
poor-spirited
dastardly
chickenhearted
poltroon
sissified
caitiff
wussy
niddering
poltroonish
candy-assed
chicken-livered
milk-livered
frightened
nervous
mousy
easily frightened
lacking courage
meek
anxious
jittery
mousey
skittish
tremulous
panicky
pigeonhearted
irresolute
hesitant
capricious
gentle
shaky
browbeaten
wavering
unnerved
submissive
dismayed
bullied
unassured
cowed
vacillating
intimidated
Milquetoast
daunted
tentative
having cold feet
more ❯
Noun
▲
An excessive willingness to serve or please others
servility
obsequiousness
sycophancy
fawning
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
flattery
unctuousness
toadyism
submissiveness
bootlicking
slavishness
toadying
subservience
smarminess
abjection
meanness
oiliness
brownnosing
abjectness
baseness
cravenness
humility
sliminess
self-abasement
apple-polishing
arse-licking
ass-kissing
excessive deference
sucking up
adulation
kowtowing
truckling
deference
compliance
creeping
bowing and scraping
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
compliancy
respect
accordance
duty
reverence
conformability
observance
agreement
complaisance
willingness
amenability
amenableness
passiveness
forbearance
biddableness
abidance
acceptance
respectfulness
orderliness
quietness
adherence
conformance
sufferance
pliability
concession
discipline
piety
reluctant agreement
caving in
manipulability
accession
servitude
controllability
concurrence
keeping
diffidence
demureness
observation
conforming
loyalty
faithfulness
conceding
lack of resistance
concord
relenting
devotion
impressionability
long-suffering
sycophancy
allegiance
veneration
devoutness
mindfulness
fealty
cave in
tolerance
longanimity
fear
phlegm
obediency
obedientness
fatalism
patientness
throwing in the towel
white flag
forbearing
resignedness
acknowledgment
US
relinquishment
abandonment
acknowledgement
UK
endurance
lack of protest
lack of complaint
acceptance of the inevitable
giving up
receptiveness
susceptibility
pliancy
openness
suggestibility
vulnerability
agreeableness
accommodativeness
receptivity
responsiveness
cooperation
amiability
ingenuousness
obligingness
impressionableness
disposition
inclination
cooperativeness
sensitivity
volition
good-naturedness
susceptibleness
enthusiasm
desire
will
eagerness
gameness
preparedness
peacefulness
gentleness
persuadability
motivation
keenness
zeal
vulnerableness
docileness
credulousness
credulity
consensualness
politeness
courtesy
flattery
gullibility
unctuousness
reactivity
reactiveness
observance of the rules
observance of the law
kindness
smarminess
readiness
perceptivity
perceptiveness
open-mindedness
friendliness
alacrity
goodwill
wish
favour
UK
favor
US
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
shuddering
getting cold feet
drawing back
pulling back
shying away
quaking
faltering
wavering
balking
US
baulking
UK
backing away
trembling
swerving
shaking
shivering
shirking
shrinking back
backing off
retreating
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
shrinking away
quivering
squirming
demurring
jumping
reeling
withdrawing
jumping back
taking fright
showing fear
falling back
recoiling from
flinching from
jerking
jolting
hesitating
bucking
drooping
fainting
shaking with fear
twitching
having cold feet
grimacing
turning
jibbing
scowling
gasping
refusing
retiring
slinking
pulling a face
reacting
making a face
hanging back
springing back
jerking back
starting back
giving ground
receding
retracting
pulling out
moving away
turning tail
fleeing
disengaging
baulking at
giving way
beating a retreat
beating a hasty retreat
backing out
taking flight
hiding
clearing out
going backward
drawing away
dropping out
evading
avoiding
crawfishing
backpedaling
US
backpedalling
UK
ricocheting
ricochetting
eschewing
feeling repugnance
rebelling
shrinking from
showing repugnance
stepping back
losing ground
escaping
eluding
shunning
pulling back from
shying away from
quailing at
turning away
boggling at
fighting shy of
jibbing 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
buttering up
apple-polishing
sucking up
pandering
playing up to
licking someone's boots
brownnosing
fussing
courting
fawning on
rubbing up the right way
prostrating oneself
laying it on
humbling oneself
creeping to
truckling to
honeying up
kissing one's feet
abasing yourself
falling on one's knees
paying court
prostrating
submitting
yielding
cajoling
deferring
stroking
massaging
oiling
currying favour
kowtowing to
toadying to
scratching one's back
abasing oneself to
crawling to
catering to
keeping someone sweet
abasing oneself before
eating crow
giving in
demeaning oneself to
bowing and scrape to
smoodging to
behaving obsequiously
knuckling under
curry favoring
kissing-up
surrendering
cultivating
fangirling
fanboying
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
kissing the feet of
prostrating oneself to
grovelling to
wheedling
smarming around
bowing and scrape before
cringing before
singing the praises of
falling over oneself for
praising to the skies
praising to excess
grovelling before
buddying up
kneeling before
caving in to
humoring
US
humouring
UK
bowing down
sniveling
US
revering
pampering
imploring
snivelling
UK
doing everything for
showing deference
going along with
caving in
paying homage
toing the mark
genuflecting
falling at feet
showing respect for
making much of
bowing to
deferring to
demeaning oneself
conceding
giving way
kisses up to
bending the knee
praising
cozying up
getting on the right side of
blarneying
adulating
charming
honeying
overpraising
snowing
getting in with
flannelling
flanneling
attracting
smarming
winning the favor of
playing up
abasing
kissing someone's feet
respecting
soaping
ingratiating
endearing
hero-worshipping
playing the game
softening up
gaining the favor of
getting in good with
making overtures
insinuating oneself
Uriah Heeping
seeking favor
back-scratching
glorifying
slavering
beslavering
smooth-talking
laying it on thick
building up
spreading it on
rubbing the right way
more ❯
“The poor puppy would
cringe
when his master raised the rolled-up newspaper.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to adopt a position where the knees are bent and the upper body is brought forward and down
crouching
squatting
stooping
bowing
kneeling
hunching
scooching
bending
huddling
cowering
couching
ducking
squinching
scrunching
grovelling
UK
groveling
US
shrinking
hunkering
dipping
quailing
wincing
quatting
hunkering down
kneeling down
bowing down
squating down
bobbing down
ducking down
stooping down
scrooching down
bending down
hunching over
crouching down
hunching down
leaning
inclining
bending over
leaning over
sitting on your haunches
leaning down
leaning forward
bending forward
sitting
roosting
settling
perching
walking with a stoop
sitting on your heels
genuflecting
curtsying
prostrating oneself
getting down on knees
going down on your knees
prostrating
kowtowing
bending the knee
curling up
crumpling
scrooching
huddling up
getting on all fours
arching
bobbing
getting down
arcking
arcing
lowering
going on all fours
going on hands and knees
bowing and scraping
inclining your body
making a bow
curtseying
bowing low
bending low
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to anticipate with great apprehension or fear
dreading
fearing
apprehending
misdoubting
shuddering
trembling
shrinking from
cowering at
cringing from
quaking at
shuddering at
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
having cold feet about
shuddering to think about
trembling to think about
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