Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.
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”).
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.
A sidelong look, particularly of animosity, judgment, or suspicion.
To look at out of the corner of one's eye, particularly with animosity, or in a judgmental or suspicious manner.