cringeworthy

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Seth was as spastic and geeky as he was in the pilot -- cringeworthy, to be sure, but dead on.

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  • It's a touch cringeworthy, reading as it does like a mid-year version of a New Year's resolution list, not to say potentially embarrassing should it fall into enemy hands. —  A Free Man In Preston
  • Part of it is simply twee and plainly cringeworthy, the other part slightly dubious "let's laugh at people mangling English", Mind Your Language-style, japery. —  Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
  • When his relatives are guilty of a "cringeworthy" cultural faux pas, she turns a blind eye.
  • And, in a cringeworthy piece of locational error, a copy testifies at one point about a location known as "Flatbush Avenue and Dean Avenue." —  Atlantic Yards Report
  • But there's good chutzpah and then there's Anthony Mundine-style chutzpah, and I don't know about you but for me a lot of what is coming out of Gold Coast United owner Clive Palmer's mouth of late has been Choc cringeworthy: not only is the club going [...] —  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion
 

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