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.”

These lies are so dumb and easy to disprove that the onetime criminal defense attorney in me is cringing.

“Is that a skeleton?” she said, cringing.

“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.