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cringe

verb as in flinch, recoil from danger

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Piecing together the last 11 months felt like trying to laugh at a joke I didn’t quite understand — painful, cringe, and less and less funny every time I tried to explain it.

When Cohn later suggests, “Trump reminds me more of myself,” it is hard not to cringe.

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You might cringe at the word hustle, but that doesn't mean you have to go down a rabbit hole of vapid brofluencers.

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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.”

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Martin noted that polls, which he doesn’t trust, are inconclusive, and he said that while he still cringes at times when Trump speaks, “I don’t think any of his ramblings will cost him the election.”

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

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