cringe-y

The Juke, like the cringe-y Pontiac Aztek, violates the anthropomorphic principle in car design in that it has three stacked sets of eyes indicator lights, headlamps and optional fog lamps.

Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose Dan Neil 2011

The voiceover can be a bit cringe-y – Rob is a true British gent with effortless style and finger-lickingly good hair.

'Robsessed': The film that reveals what Robert Pattinson really smells like! | EW.com 2009

Turning every major life decision into a sort-of entertaining, sort-of cringe-y Rose Ceremony?

The LeBron James saga: When did basketball get infected by reality TV? | EW.com 2010

America's Next Top Model, it's always super cringe-y because those pretty model types can never act.

Queer Sighted Dennis Hensley 2010

Perusing Gibbs 'cringe-y comedic output suggests it was the instictive laughter of relief-a bunch of reporters surprised and delighted to find they had emerged from the class 5 hurricane of the Bush era relatively unscathed.

Gawker Adrian Chen 2010

However, "storing" magazines in the bathroom always makes me a bit cringe-y.

Apartment Therapy Main 2010

Perusing Gibbs 'cringe-y comedic output suggests it was the instictive laughter of relief-a bunch of reporters surprised and delighted to find they had emerged from the class 5 hurricane of the Bush era relatively unscathed.

Gawker 2010

Tom Cruise apologized to Matt Lauer for coming across as "arrogant" during his cringe-y interview about antidepressants ... in 2005!

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

I can faintly hear Slezak's cringe-y auditory melee of sobs and chokes from a few doors down.

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

(Perhaps he felt intimidated by Steve Wozniak.) 30 Rock, my totally appropriate crushes on both Jon Hamm and Tina Fey as individuals have given way to a slightly cringe-y full-blown obsession with the concept of them as a potential couple.

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009