1In a servile or sycophantic way.

卡尔法克斯卑躬屈膝地退缩到一边。

1. 1.1informal usually as submodifier So as to make one feel embarrassed or disgusted.
   〈非正式〉令人尴尬地；令人厌恶地
   their early performances were cringingly awkward

   他们最初的演出难看得令人感到尴尬。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • You have to watch, even if it is just to see how cringingly awful it can get.
   • The inquiry website, on which more than 6,000 pages of documents - some cringingly private - have been posted, has become the most popular website in the UK.
   • The whole show was cringingly off the mark and much of the time was just plain boring and pointless.
   • Docherty was flattered and received florid correspondence praising his talents, something that most Scots might find cringingly embarrassing.
   • Technology is so cringingly cheap these days, I almost despair at the ease with which people are suckered in by brand name marketing.
   • Nonetheless, it was one of the most entertaining, brutally-realistic pieces of television I've seen for a while, even if it was cringingly embarrassing.
   • Most of this is cringingly awful and is made worse by the fact that if there is a studio audience in England it goes wild with mirth.
   • In an emotional scene where Maureen defends her bulimia, Pratt is cringingly bad.
   • To make matters worse, Mancuso was cringingly under-rehearsed on opening night, stopping the performance on at least seven counts to consult his script.
   • Newcastle's surf scene is cringingly bad.
   • He gave a speech that was arrogant, patronising, and cringingly politically correct.
   • Brock, a non-front man's front-man, is oddly chatty and sometimes cringingly open about his life and exploits, especially for a guy who "hates" doing interviews.
   • So the morning after, while feeling hideous, we cringingly piece together the results of baser motives unbound.
   • Time and again they chose unsuspecting members of an audience and embroiled them in wacky games or ludicrous, sometimes cringingly embarrassing, situations.
   • Then I'm jealous because, as cringingly adolescent as it feels to say this, I don't know anyone who shares my paradigm.
   • Their early performances in Europe were cringingly awful.
   • Sure, it's cringingly inappropriate at times, but the writers have spent more of their time over the last four years creating genuine laughs than trying to make censors blush.
   • Yes, the patriotic episodes were cringingly obvious.
   • Despite this, many of the scenes between Jet and Seigl are brilliantly, cringingly drawn, getting to the nub of sibling psychodrama.
   • Recently, a friend cringingly preceded a car advice question with the statement, "I know station wagons are passe, but …"