cringe-making
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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But he added: "With a few exceptions, Borat's satirical jabs don't land with quite the same cringe-making force this time; the setups are too convoluted, the anonymous targets too genial, the payoffs too meagre."
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2020
How cringe-making it must have been for Baltimore fans when their coach claimed, “It’s not something anybody’s ever done before.”
From Slate • Jan. 27, 2015
And his white guy in the ghetto odyssey was both cringe-making and pretty funny.
From Salon • May 16, 2013
Written from the hero’s rather than the heroine’s point of view, this 700-plus-page tome is a bad romance novel, driven by a preposterous, melodramatic plot and filled with some truly cringe-making prose.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2012
Now it seems faintly cringe-making coming from a dramatist who so loved Britain that he spent the last 20 years of his life as a tax exile.
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2011
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