Cringing

Something that makes me shiver (and not because I’m cringing).

He’s admitted to cringing at his old behavior, but that’s not enough.

I smoothed down the front of my dark skirts, cringing a little at the flour splattered across my bodice.

Showing off the painful process in a clip, the wife of could be heard cringing and screaming.

Sir Robbie's venture comes amid growing tensions between No 10 and the BBC, with Downing Street saying the Corporation speaks only to a 'pro-Remain metropolitan bubble' and Boris Johnson accusing the BBC of 'cringing embarrassment about our history'.

This same woman was reporting on a murder on Anna Maria Island this weekend and I was cringing at how bad it was.

Utterly confused, Monica attempted to prove herself by massaging Chandler again, this time noticing him cringing in pain.

Sometimes it looks like they’re cringing as if in pain, and there may be a reason for that.

Yet, the employee may have actually been cringing on the inside.

It is a biography of cringing, compassion, and somebody’s-got-to-do-it resourcefulness, plus irritations, but with a breezy heft of fabrication.

The words “foie gras nachos” had me cringing slightly, but the base plate of nachos themselves were delicious topped as it was with cubes of fresh tomato and perfectly ripe avocado, along with plenty of cilantro and just the right slick of melted cheddar.

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

Fear of pain in a plausible situation brings flinching, or cringing.

Krige recalled the first day she had her makeup applied: "I saw everyone cringing.