Example Sentences

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It was called "the worst programme ever made", "toe-curlingly naff", and criticised for alleged misogyny and shallow characters.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2023

The Guardian declared the movie "toe-curlingly, teeth-furringly, pillow-bitingly ghastly," while the Daily Mail said that the film "takes the romance of the century and turns it into a cheap, shonky and unintentionally hilarious filmus horribilis."

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2021

It was so toe-curlingly cringeworthy, such a crushing humiliation.

From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2020

It’s odd, because the show seems to have ambitions and glimmerings of quality, and the acting, outside of the toe-curlingly awful dialogue, is not bad at all.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2014

A snow white sifaka putting on a show before a crowd of onlookers, swinging back and forth � it's so toe-curlingly kawaii, as our Japanese traveling companions put it, you could die.

From Time Magazine Archive