CRINGING Synonyms

• feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse

• lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance

• causing inconvenience

• difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape

• not elegant or graceful in expression

• hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment

• socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner

• feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed

• feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

• people who are defeated

• disappointingly unsuccessful

• having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion

• feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed

• made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

• subdued or brought low in condition or status

• made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

• suffering from tissue death

• made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

• feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone

• feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

• feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds

• aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts

• excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior

• extremely modest or shy

• showing a sense of shame

• showing a sense of guilt

• like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity

• showing a sense of shame

• conducive to or feeling mental discomfort

• providing or experiencing physical discomfort

• lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance

• lacking or not affording physical or mental rest

• causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

• socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner

• relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort

• crouch or curl up

• show submission or fear

• a very slow movement

• a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick

• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

• move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

• feel as if crawling with insects

• be full of

• show submission or fear

• swim by doing the crawl