Clues for the word "CRINGE"
We've had 47 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 90 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on April 14, 2026.
Definition of cringe
- v. t. - To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
- v. t. - To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
- n. - Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.
Referring Clues
- Shrink in fear
- Draw back
- Behave servilely
- Cower
- Recoil in distaste
- Recoil in fear
- Show fear, in a way
- Wince
- Recoil
- React with fright
- Shrink from
- Recoil from
- Quail
- [That makes me so uncomfortable]
- Shrink
- Draw back in fear
- Reaction to an awkward moment
- Flinch
- Cold enclosure for doe's last fawn
- Shrink in fear or horror
- Shrink in fear or embarrassment
- Shrink in fear, embarrassment, or servility
- Flinch from having bell in church
- Show submission or fear
- Call in church to fall on one's knees?
- Wince to see boxing in church
- Shrink from phone in church
- Bow down to play the bells in church
- Feel distaste at toll collected by church
- Display discomfiture
- React to an embarrassing act
- Draw back in fright
- Between cigarette ends, the band will fawn or grovel
- Draw back from phone in church
- React to an awkward moment
- Draw back in horror
- [Ouch!]
- React to an awkward situation
- Betray fear
- Experience embarrassment
- Response to a truly bad joke
- [I'm so uncomfortable right now]
- [awkward]
- React to an awkward moment, say
- [Oooh, that's embarrassing]
- Response to an approaching embarrassment
- Like content that causes secondhand embarrassment
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - April 14, 2026
- Daily American - January 26, 2026
- Daily American - January 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 01, 2025
- New York Times - November 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 14, 2024
- Daily Quick - September 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 16, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - March 06, 2024
- Daily American - January 26, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - January 18, 2024
- New York Times - January 12, 2024
- New York Times - December 13, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - December 04, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 05, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 31, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - June 06, 2023
- Daily American - January 19, 2023
- LA Times - November 24, 2022
- Daily Quick - September 20, 2022
- New York Times - October 02, 2021
- Wall Street Journal - January 30, 2018
- Daily American - January 26, 2018
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - November 12, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - October 28, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - October 12, 2017
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