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Adjective
Excessive in obsequious praise or flattery
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 lower the head or the body quickly to avoid a blow or missile or so as not to be seen
Present participle for anticipate with great apprehension or fear
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Adjective
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Excessive in obsequious praise or flattery
servile
crouching
cowardly
obsequious
submissive
fawning
grovelling
UK
sycophantic
subservient
groveling
US
ingratiating
slavish
abject
bootlicking
toadying
unctuous
humble
slimy
smarmy
oily
soapy
Uriah Heepish
brown-nosing
sucky
toadyish
craven
arse-licking
flattering
oleaginous
ass-kissing
greasy
crawling
apple-polishing
self-abasing
deferential
obeisant
suckholing
menial
truckling
mean
snivelling
UK
forelock-tugging
sniveling
US
compliant
docile
creeping
sycophantish
timid
gushing
kowtowing
low
excessively deferential
cowering
subject
obedient
passive
prostrate
base
arse-kissing
smooth
slick
adulatory
brownnosing
parasitical
parasitic
spineless
mealy-mouthed
reptilian
suave
cringey
glib
gushy
saponaceous
effusive
beggarly
despicable
bowing and scraping
smooth-tongued
self-effacing
creepy
meek
ignoble
acquiescent
unresisting
unassertive
yielding
downtrodden
resigned
under one's thumb
humiliating
timeserving
subordinate
complacent
reverential
respectful
enslaved
stipendiary
sneaking
compliable
conniving
wormlike
all over someone
sycophant
scraping
bowing
eating crow
eating humble pie
biddable
duteous
accommodating
dutiful
mild
subdued
spiritless
pliant
ductile
lamblike
inferior
resistless
longanimous
dominated
dancing
subjugated
browbeaten
bullied
oppressed
intimidated
repressed
nagged
at one's mercy
in one's power
in one's clutches
a slave to
at one's beck and call
in one's pocket
constrained
uxorious
henpecked
treated like dirt
led by the nose
tied to someone's apron strings
under the thumb
subjected to nagging
ground down
without a mind of one's own
wife-ridden
in fear of one's partner
under someone's heel
fulsome
urbane
saccharine
insincere
hagiographical
hagiographic
cloying
plausible
cajoling
nauseating
hypocritical
buttery
sickening
wheedling
slippery
phoney
UK
creamy
smug
pinguid
phony
US
silver-tongued
smooth-talking
smooth-spoken
honey-tongued
lowly
complimentary
praising
sweet-talking
sugary
appreciative
honeyed
insinuating
vile
laudatory
ignominious
encomiastic
encomiastical
unworthy
following
winsome
winning
endearing
disarming
commending
applauding
admiring
favourable
UK
supple
bland
coaxing
overly flattering
flannelling
blarneying
soft
serving
insinuative
charming
silken
soft-soaping
gratifying
sequacious
favorable
US
worshipping
UK
unskilled
enthusiastic
glowing
commendatory
blandishing
worshipful
boring
degrading
low-status
rhapsodic
acclamatory
lionizing
US
eulogistic
routine
dull
highly favourable
humdrum
rave
sorry
demeaning
lionising
UK
worshiping
US
degraded
contemptible
worthless
low-grade
reverent
blue-collar
debased
courtly
tedious
common
baseborn
basic
sordid
standing
regarding
respecting
reprehensible
shabby
dishonourable
UK
scungy
detestable
horrible
gloomy
dishonorable
US
deferent
dismal
hangdog
deplorable
humiliated
dejected
outcast
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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
desolate
disheartened
despairing
morose
broken-hearted
distressed
dolorous
grief-stricken
cheerless
fed up
rueful
regretful
disappointed
lugubrious
tearful
moody
remorseful
in low spirits
pessimistic
chap-fallen
contrite
penitent
repentant
long-faced
sombre
UK
somber
US
hurting
upset
grieving
chapfallen
in pain
choked
troubled
compunctious
dragged
brassed off
demoralized
US
cheesed off
sullen
in the dumps
oppressed
apologetic
mirthless
demoralised
UK
anguished
in the doldrums
bummed out
sick as a parrot
in the pits
spiritless
crushed
destroyed
pitiful
hopeless
down and out
dreary
mortified
grim
afflicted
piteous
devastated
red-faced
in sackcloth and ashes
funereal
grieved
dismayed
distraught
bleak
chagrined
guilt-ridden
humble
teary
down-hearted
defeatist
shot down
lachrymose
wistful
out of sorts
all torn up
singing the blues
in a blue funk
weighed down
as sick as a parrot
discomfited
self-effacing
awkward
shamed
pitiable
black
saturnine
dour
depressing
self-reproachful
painful
comfortless
sorrowing
plaintive
daunted
hurt
depressive
in despair
tragic
tristful
solemn
mopey
weepy
dull
sick at heart
deplorable
full of regret
dolent
shy
cut up
ripped
bleeding
self-conscious
taken down
cast-down
diffident
torn up
on a downer
bashful
chastened
pathetic
worthless
pained
shattered
down-in-the-mouth
humbled
tormented
grievous
emotional
debased
suffering
propitiatory
enervated
distressing
attritional
deprecatory
sapped
bereaved
subdued
flat
mourning
lonesome
lonely
penitential
sepulchral
helpless
heavy
elegiac
unconsolable
bummed-out
sour
gutted
mopish
broody
grumpy
crabbed
bereft
surly
sulky
Eeyorish
adust
downbeat
heartrending
calamitous
weary
crummy
meek
ruthful
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
pensive
appeasing
displeased
shaken
heart-sick
lovesick
worried
undermined
apathetic
humourless
UK
humorless
US
desperate
disillusioned
taken aback
deflated
perturbed
aggrieved
bothered
brooding
listless
sunk
unsatisfied
torn-up
discontent
troubling
tear-jerking
affecting
griefstricken
dirgeful
emo
without energy
saddening
depressant
godforsaken
disturbed
concerned
lowered
bowed
prostrate with grief
sorry for yourself
with one's tail between one's legs
let-down
not happy
off
sluggish
moping
ugly
churlish
afflicting
lost
unable to be comforted
unable to be consoled
in a funk
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
sorry for oneself
beside oneself with grief
heart-rending
friendless
destitute
uncared-for
discontented
wounded
strained
racked
agonised
UK
agonized
US
ailing
shook up
withdrawn
foolish
coy
backward
demure
silly
modest
retiring
introverted
recessive
poor
dragging
cynical
solitary
defenseless
US
defenceless
UK
fruitless
alone
dark
dysphoric
atrabilious
clouded
dampened
drooping
dashed
sagging
timorous
tame
timid
docile
drear
elegiacal
nostalgic
lamenting
blushing
flustered
heartbreaking
prudish
bummed
hapless
powerless
downtrodden
discountenanced
down-and-out
conciliatory
expiatory
self-incriminating
atoning
supplicating
explanatory
submissive
reserved
demeaned
stuttering
deterred
disconcerted
restrained
stammering
muddled
blush to think of
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
grave
discouraging
menacing
unfavorable
US
unfavourable
UK
sinister
unpromising
terrible
direful
unlucky
unpleasant
glowering
awful
baleful
doomy
drab
shocking
sober
regrettable
adverse
uninviting
ghastly
portentous
appalling
harsh
bitter
bodeful
dispiriting
ill-boding
horrid
frightful
ill-fated
horrifying
horrendous
frightening
ill
hostile
severe
disagreeable
infelicitous
scowling
unfriendly
horrific
upsetting
macabre
minatory
disadvantageous
crabby
troublesome
gruesome
alarming
serious
uncommunicative
frowning
ill-omened
distressful
irritable
fateful
disturbing
dangerous
worrying
oppressive
bad-tempered
ill-tempered
austere
cross
untimely
lurid
fearsome
doomed
gruff
terrifying
inopportune
foul
atrocious
nasty
unsociable
intimidating
unresponsive
scary
nightmarish
angry
agonizing
US
baneful
spooky
grisly
agonising
UK
apocalyptic
shadowy
hideous
unsmiling
inhospitable
untoward
traumatic
grouchy
louring
disconcerting
peevish
taciturn
fearful
minacious
unwelcoming
disastrous
creepy
doubtful
testy
eerie
unhopeful
daunting
unnerving
monstrous
grotesque
lousy
fierce
loathsome
terrific
offensive
difficult
rough
dingy
objectionable
afflictive
chilling
displeasing
stern
perilous
dirgelike
stormy
stark
overcast
unamused
pouting
sedate
catastrophic
resentful
evil
poignant
lowering
tragical
inconvenient
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
execrable
sinistrous
sickening
stroppy
sulking
rotten
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
stony
unconfident
ferocious
squally
inclement
ill-suited
very bad
unearthly
earnest
jinxed
maudlin
critical
rainy
unoptimistic
disgruntled
tempestuous
cursed
windy
crying
intimidatory
piqued
gusty
touchy
wintry
US
prejudicial
inexpedient
squalid
premonitory
sobersided
peeved
discomforting
mean-looking
deathly
put out
inconducive
unhealthy
warning
wailing
aching
deploring
bewailing
bemoaning
funeral
gory
cataclysmic
crucial
counter
loury
blowy
misty
shameful
colorless
US
uncivil
detrimental
improper
snappish
crotchety
inferior
weird
shady
spookish
sick
raw
crusty
discomposing
embittered
unmannerly
unseemly
damaging
devastating
crushing
excruciating
scurvy
impoverished
indigent
augural
suggestive
prophetic
haunting
mortifying
pressing
wintery
UK
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
uncertain
stony-faced
uninspiring
ill-advised
unexciting
blah
uninteresting
humdrum
unlikely
unencouraging
full of despair
uncaring
ruined
deserted
funebrial
exequial
deathlike
Stygian
hollow
obscure
unimpassioned
leaden
waste
lorn
melodramatic
supernatural
unmoved
companionless
threnodial
demoralizing
US
demoralising
UK
phlegmatic
acheronian
touching
dejecting
drained
intolerable
wet
wild
fatal
at
given to looking on the black side
deadly
empty
devitalized
doom-laden
gaunt
blustery
foggy
cranky
reflective
thrown
suicidal
dolorific
heart-wrenching
derisible
unchancy
promising rain
evil-looking
bearish
brusque
doom and gloom
dubious
tough
unprosperous
stirring
having blue devils
having the blahs
choleric
acrimonious
unmitigable
lethal
mortal
down in dumps
down in mouth
fiery
sob story
splenetic
narky
frantic
anxious
life-threatening
suggestive of evil
temperamental
aggravated
fractious
put off
in a bad way
out of luck
raging
injurious
without hope
up the creek
dismaying
enraged
languished
broken
languorous
triste
languid
sobbing
shot-down
vexed
perverse
chippy
aloof
unenthused
unenthusiastic
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
Gothic
close to tears
uncooperative
obstinate
fretful
ornery
disgraceful
poker-faced
down-in-mouth
beat
beat-down
come-apart
caved-in
unspeakable
urgent
extreme
thunderous
trashy
shoddy
filthy
blubbering
can't win
prognosticatory
important
predictive
drastic
outrageous
derisory
malevolent
volatile
savage
tumultuous
larmoyant
bullying
steely
flinty
ungentle
rugged
at the end of your tether
not a prayer
at end of one's rope
in the soup
worrisome
lacking in confidence
lacking in enthusiasm
having lost heart
crippling
irretrievable
on the verge of tears
sniveling
US
stressful
unsettling
torturous
bored
tired
comminatory
terrorizing
US
unwholesome
chronic
paltry
feeble
disapproving
unsympathetic
agitating
unbearable
abominable
unsavory
US
with cold feet
lost momentum
oppressing
near
close
forthcoming
lowery
upcoming
overhanging
terrorising
UK
portending
impendent
poverty-stricken
in a huff
in a mood
in the sulks
in a strop
having a fit of the sulks
exciting
fated
exhilarating
inspiring
intriguing
extraordinary
remarkable
phenomenal
destined
thrilling
annoyed
easily moved
unsatisfactory
nauseating
hairy
tormenting
fraught
gross
icky
stinking
disgusting
unacceptable
obnoxious
diabolical
troublous
unendurable
hard-faced
stringent
gone to pieces
in blue funk
grotty
grody
unappealing
yucky
uncool
yukky
hellacious
nauseous
in floods of tears
with tears in your eyes
irked
exasperated
irritated
unsavoury
UK
hurtful
unlovely
concerning
beastly
at hand
jaded
wearied
narked
nerve-racking
nail-biting
extremely bad
nerve-wracking
ghostly
sated
surfeited
hacked off
dissatisfied
satiated
blasé
pitiless
nightmare
not best pleased
sick and tired
up to here
dirty
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
enervated
ineffective
impotent
indecisive
weedy
unassertive
languid
tremulous
insipid
debilitated
meek
infirm
abject
drippy
vapid
inept
impressionable
enfeebled
tame
slight
silly
wavering
cowed
wasted
foolish
sapped
unsubstantial
delicate
low
faint
asthenic
tender
easily led
softened
prostrate
inadequate
prostrated
white-livered
down-and-out
unnerved
daft
useless
caitiff
persuasible
persuadable
compliant
weak-minded
fallible
passive
colourless
UK
mousy
jejune
limp
nerdy
mousey
skittish
listless
lacking courage
powerless
feeble-minded
dull
dismayed
colorless
US
having cold feet
inefficient
incompetent
reluctant
innocuous
soppy
mean-spirited
disorganized
US
wasteful
insufficient
fearsome
niddering
coward
poltroonish
insignificant
lame
epicene
simpering
swishy
snowflake
deceitful
offensive
treacherous
sneaking
unprincipled
unethical
tricky
fickle
doubtful
sookie
bashful
reserved
quiet
modest
unassuming
self-effacing
afraid of one's own shadow
faltering
dithering
disorganised
UK
flabby
biddable
bland
vulnerable
errant
defenceless
UK
susceptible
malleable
undetermined
indeterminate
cowhearted
backward
worthless
humble
cringey
reticent
demure
startled
corruptible
supine
hemming and hawing
waffling
yielding
unreliable
unsure
undependable
gentle
browbeaten
Milquetoast
capricious
bullied
unassured
imperfect
erring
flawed
resistless
paper tiger
no guts
without guts
changeable
flavourless
UK
mediocre
watered-down
sapless
flavorless
US
having the willies
easily tempted
defenseless
US
exhausted
drained
spent
decrepit
worn out
vitiated
washed-out
declining
played out
lacklustre
UK
unenthusiastic
droopy
apathetic
lifeless
melancholic
melancholy
passionless
dispirited
torpid
unmoved
lackadaisical
bloodless
despondent
languorous
depressed
mopy
desiccated
dejected
flat
unimpassioned
wooden
languishing
dry
uninspired
anaemic
UK
uninspiring
unconcerned
draggy
slothful
broken
boring
blue
down
lackluster
US
disconsolate
dopey
subdued
inanimate
downhearted
indifferent
sad
blah
downcast
anemic
US
down in the dumps
flat tire
cast down
down in the mouth
lacking in vitality
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
reverence
false praise
flannel
smooth talk
fulsomeness
soft-soap
simpering
spiel
deference
currying favour
buttering up
cosying up
adoration
worship
idolization
puffery
glorification
veneration
admiration
inveiglement
exaltation
gratification
awe
overpraise
worshiping
US
incense
taffy
butter
applause
commendation
plaudits
smarm
worshipping
UK
laudation
eyewash
glozing
guyver
cajolement
smoodging
cuddling up
ego massage
charm offensive
pats on the back
lip salve
compliance
allurement
enticement
crawling
bowing and scraping
creeping
sweet words
ingratiating
exaggeration
charm
cobblers
oil
honey
wonderment
wonder
a line
infatuation
marveling
US
respect
pumping up
puff
marvelling
UK
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
more ❯
Noun
▲
The state in which someone has to accept the control of another person
submission
compliance
obedience
submissiveness
yielding
acquiescence
meekness
tractability
deference
docility
malleability
passivity
resignation
unassertiveness
surrender
tractableness
biddability
capitulation
duteousness
dutifulness
humility
manageability
non-resistance
servility
subjection
capitulating
cession
conformity
handover
patience
relinquishment
rendition
self-abasement
self-effacement
submitting
subordination
subservience
tameness
bootlicking
cave-in
obeisance
obsequiousness
appeasement
assent
bowing
defeatism
humbleness
nonresistance
passivism
pliabilty
prostration
recreancy
giving in
backing down
respect
accordance
compliancy
conformability
agreement
observance
duty
reverence
amenability
willingness
complaisance
orderliness
quietness
amenableness
adherence
respectfulness
biddableness
forbearance
passiveness
acceptance
conformance
abidance
caving in
sufferance
pliability
concurrence
concession
piety
reluctant agreement
controllability
manipulability
accession
vail
sycophancy
timidity
weakness
fearfulness
consent
discipline
diffidence
throwing in the towel
truce flag
flag of truce
retreat
demureness
observance of the rules
observance of the law
loyalty
faithfulness
conforming
devotion
conceding
fortitude
endurance
concord
relenting
impressionability
keeping
allegiance
lack of resistance
observation
congruence
congruency
congruity
accord
veneration
devoutness
mindfulness
fealty
long-suffering
stoicism
tolerance
cave in
coherence
consistency
harmony
consonance
fear
longanimity
fatalism
phlegm
forbearing
white flag
resignedness
lowliness
acknowledgement
UK
modesty
patientness
acknowledgment
US
lack of protest
lack of complaint
acceptance of the inevitable
amiability
good-naturedness
accommodativeness
agreeableness
cooperativeness
pliancy
obligingness
unctuousness
smarminess
flattery
sweet talk
abjection
reporting
kindness
courtesy
friendliness
politeness
ductility
accountability
receptiveness
docileness
peacefulness
gentleness
accessibility
readiness
responsiveness
openness
susceptibility
open-mindedness
perviousness
persuadability
suggestibleness
cooperation
flexibility
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
backing away
retreating
shuddering
backing off
quaking
wavering
withdrawing
shaking
trembling
shrinking away
swerving
faltering
balking
US
baulking
UK
shrinking back
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
shivering
shirking
falling back
quivering
squirming
jumping
hesitating
jumping back
springing back
taking fright
showing fear
fleeing
jerking
jolting
bucking
shaking with fear
twitching
drooping
fainting
reacting
resiling
having cold feet
sticking
reeling
stickling
blinking
caroming
demurring
grimacing
refusing
jerking back
retiring
huddling
boggling
slinking
scrupling
starting back
quavering
balking at
stepping back
moving back
turning away
turning
jibbing
scowling
gasping
pulling a face
making a face
receding
moving away
shrinking from
flinching from
evading
eschewing
hanging back
recoiling from
quailing at
jibbing at
baulking at
shying away from
yielding
abandoning
surrendering
hiding
ricocheting
ricochetting
giving up
going backward
drawing away
dropping out
giving ground
avoiding
giving way
crawfishing
backpedaling
US
pulling out
backpedalling
UK
losing ground
escaping
eluding
shunning
dithering
resisting
backing out
taking away
discounting
subtracting
reeling in
deducting
sheathing
boggling at
fighting shy of
shilly-shallying
vacillating
scorning
disdaining
refusing to
hesitating to
hanging back from
scrupling about
vacillating about
shying from
desisting
drawing back from
crimping
scrupling to
cramping
demurring from
hesitating over
thinking twice about
having qualms about
having scruples about
having misgivings about
hating to
stopping short
drawing the line at
taking exception to
upsetting apple cart
turning down
reining in
feeling repugnance
rebelling
showing repugnance
pulling back from
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
sneaking
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
playing up to
brownnosing
sucking up
rubbing up the right way
courting
fussing
pandering
fawning on
giving in
prostrating oneself
submitting
yielding
deferring
cajoling
stroking
massaging
oiling
kowtowing to
truckling to
abasing oneself
creeping to
licking boots
honeying up
knuckling under
paying court
licking someone's boots
laying it on
kissing one's feet
falling on one's knees
surrendering
obeying
abasing
conceding
giving way
prostrating
toadying to
grovelling to
kissing-up
humbling oneself
behaving obsequiously
crawling to
currying favour
curry favoring
abasing oneself to
demeaning oneself to
abasing oneself before
smoodging to
scratching one's back
catering to
keeping someone sweet
bowing to
bowing and scrape to
keeping sweet
cultivating
folding
bending the knee
smoodging
making up
prostrating oneself before
fawning over
eulogizing
US
praising
lying down and rolling over
saying uncle
going along with
caving in
toing the mark
seeking the favour of
trying to get on the good side of
trying to win over
kisses up to
cringing before
grovelling before
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
caving in to
falling at feet
casting before
bowing down
kissing the feet of
prostrating oneself to
wheedling
humoring
US
sniveling
US
revering
pampering
imploring
snivelling
UK
genuflecting
humouring
UK
acquiescing
acceding
capitulating
humbling yourself
showing respect for
eating crow
making much of
deferring to
abasing yourself
demeaning yourself
honoring
US
honouring
UK
respecting
buckling
agreeing with
accepting
giving in to
admitting
caving
complying with
accommodating
agreeing
adjusting
adapting
succumbing
assenting
knuckling
complying
ingratiating yourself
charming
blarneying
honeying
inveigling
coaxing
flannelling
flanneling
palavering
ingratiating
overpraising
adulating
building up
rubbing the right way
spreading it on
working over
glorifying
softening
working on
sweetening up
selling
getting on the right side of
getting next to
beslavering
conning
salving
persuading
smooth-talking
soaping
sucking up to someone
playing up
playing the game
softening up
back-scratching
complimenting
winning the favor of
ingratiating yourself with
kissing someone's feet
puffing
commending
admiring
insinuating yourself
getting in with
handing a line
captivating
insinuating oneself
cozying up
seeking favor
attracting
hero-worshipping
belauding
expressing admiration for
panegyrizing
paying tribute to
lauding
waxing lyrical about
saying nice things about
paying blandishments to
complimenting excessively
beguiling
enticing
urging
caressing
alluring
more ❯
“The poor puppy would
cringe
when his master raised the rolled-up newspaper.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for lower the head or the body quickly to avoid a blow or missile or so as not to be seen
ducking
bending
stooping
cowering
crouching
squatting
bending down
bobbing down
bowing down
huddling
scooching
shrinking
crouching down
hunching down
hunkering down
squating down
stooping down
hunching
bowing
kneeling
squinching
couching
scrunching
dipping
hunkering
ducking down
sitting
descending
leaning
sitting on your heels
roosting
sitting on your haunches
settling
perching
inclining
slanting
relaxing
leaning over
leaning down
wincing
groveling
US
quailing
grovelling
UK
quatting
bending over
leaning forward
bending forward
walking with a stoop
kneeling down
hunching over
scrooching down
genuflecting
curtsying
bobbing
prostrating oneself
lowering
going down on your knees
getting down on your knees
arching
prostrating
kowtowing
crawling
bending the knee
getting on all fours
dropping
getting down
declining
nodding
curving
arcking
arcing
humping
huddling up
curling up
tensing
going on all fours
going on hands and knees
bowing and scraping
drawing together
curtseying
inclining your body
making a bow
inclining the body
drawing in
more ❯
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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