Recoil in distaste
Else clues • [That's a sore subject]
• Behave servilely
• Cower
• Draw back
• React with fright
• Recoil
• Recoil in fear
• Show fear
• Show fear, in a way
• Show fear//Shrink in fear
• Shrink
• Shrink away
• Shrink in fear
• Wince