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recoiling
adjective as in bashful
noun as in return
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Example Sentences
But Trump does feel it when people are laughing at him—provided, that is, they keep up the ridicule rather than recoiling when he slaps back.
The fun and beauty of it lies in poring over the tiny details, and the feeling of the pistol recoiling into your hand.
But then images of Trump recoiling from a would-be assassin’s bullet flashed across their seat-back monitors.
So rather than staying in the cycle of having a knee-jerk negative reaction each time I scrolled past a new lurid selfie and then feeling guilty for recoiling, I unfollowed her.
Democrats took a drubbing in Suffolk County, where suburbanites may be recoiling at the migrant crisis plaguing the metropolis to the west.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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