cringe

Example Sentences

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“I cringed at being a sacrificial pawn in their game of relationship chess,” Davis writes.

From Los Angeles Times

“So all those years of ‘cool’ usernames and cringe emails can be erased… shame it can’t delete the memories associated with them,” another X user posted.

From Los Angeles Times

Hence, the inspiration for the photo: a take on the quintessential family-style portrait — the ones you kind of cringe at when you walk into someone’s home, radiating manufactured happiness.

From Los Angeles Times

The track is so unapologetically — ugh, cringe word, I know — Mexican.

From Los Angeles Times

Despite being hailed for his bravery by police and prosecutors, Mr Barr said being called a hero makes him "cringe" and added: "Every man that I seen was trying to do the same."

From BBC