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cringe

verb as in flinch, recoil from danger

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While marketing gambling to minors across international borders might be an actual crime, it’s well understood what the real crime is in the eyes of an irony-poisoned, meme-consuming council: being cringe.

From Slate

When Cohn later suggests, “Trump reminds me more of myself,” it is hard not to cringe.

From Salon

You might cringe at the word hustle, but that doesn't mean you have to go down a rabbit hole of vapid brofluencers.

From Salon

“I can’t say I’m from Ohio,” he said, referencing the popular, post-ironic replacement slang term for cringe that quickly became oversaturated as more mainstream attention was brought to it, “or I’ll just lose the class.”

From Slate

“She’s gonna look back on it and she’s gonna cringe,” Trump said.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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