cringing

He also characterized the antebellum North as “the mere cringing vassal of the South” and a section of the country that contained “lords” and “nobles” of its own that comprised an “aristocracy of the skin.”

“We are cringing, as it could result in changes across our menus,” Ms. Hallman said.

In December, cringing apologies were extracted from Russian celebrities who attended an “almost naked” bacchanal deemed unseemly during wartime.

This show, starring Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder as a couple at the center of a home renovation reality series, has had us cringing all season, but we still can’t look away.

And I didn’t want to ruin that moment, so I was just stuck in a different room, laughing and cringing, all that stuff.