A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.
To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
To bow or crouch in servility.
To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.