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flinch

verb as in shy away, wince

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I find it fascinating when friends scoff at a $300 price tag for a mattress that they will spend hundreds of hours sleeping on, but won’t flinch at thousands of dollars for a ski kit that will see dozens of hours of use in a good season.

If either of you flinches, then don’t count on another six months.

He doesn’t flinch at questions about being identified as a key offender in one of the game’s most infamous cheating scandals during his former job as bench coach of the Houston Astros.

She leaned in and corrected the line of silver above Taylor Jo’s right eye, disturbed a little by the girl’s flinch.

No plans or preparation would have gotten me ready for this kind of adversity, but like I told my wife, we can’t flinch.

In the video, Solange smacks and kicks her brother-in-law while Beyonce DOESN'T EVEN FLINCH.

Kenyatta made a Bush-like vow to continue the war on Al-Shabab, saying, “We will not flinch.”

When I reminded him that that could mean hundreds of offspring showing up on his doorstep, he didn't flinch.

We sat around all night in briefings discussing what each flinch and kick meant for its recovery and if we could save it in time.

We pressed here and watched it kick and then we pressed there and watched it flinch.

Her quiet eyes, held by his during the spell that had bound them speechless, did not flinch at the breaking of it.

From where he sat watching—curious to see what Cash would do—Bud saw him flinch and stiffen as a man does under pain.

He too must work; he must not trust altogether to Texas Smith; the scoundrel might flinch, or might fail.

Two bullets went through the boy's hat; then a splinter cut through his clothes; still he did not flinch.

To tell you the truth, it was something terrible, but though I didn't like it I wouldn't flinch.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flinch, such as: balk, blanch, blink, cower, cringe, and recoil.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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