To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
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.
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.
Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.
To accept something willingly or gladly.
To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".
Whose arrival is a cause of joy; received with gladness; admitted willingly to the house, entertainment, or company.
Producing gladness.
Free to have or enjoy gratuitously.
The utterance of such a greeting.
The act of greeting someone’s arrival, especially by saying "Welcome!"; reception.
Kind reception of a guest or newcomer.
The state of being a welcome guest.
Greeting given upon someone's arrival.