cringe-making
Britishadjective
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He loved playing onstage with his mates, but he hated life on the road, hated leaving home, hated the cringe-making trappings of rock ’n’ roll — the parties, the press, the screaming girls.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
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
His Clybourne Park was an entertaining, cringe-making satire about bourgeois bigotry and the way that when people's property is threatened they become aggressive.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2013
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