cringe-making
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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He said it was "cringe-making" and "awful", adding he wouldn't want to switch places with Mr Hancock.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2022
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
He had successfully navigated eight years of political wrangling, the digital revolution, controversies over cost-cutting and his own pay, not to mention some cringe-making televised antics of BBC hosts.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2012
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