Sentence examples for cringeworthy from inspiring English sources

"What makes a great frontman is the great people behind him… If Bono or I were to release solo albums, they'd be cringeworthy.

In 2010, she produced her first theatrical release, Tiny Furniture, in which she played Aura, a girl in the post-college doldrums, whose mis-steps are as endearing as they are cringeworthy.

He chose the right answer, but the exchange was cringeworthy.

Some things that were smiled at, or winked at — as John Madden does at the end of the video (above) in old-time Raider renegade fashion — can now be seen as retrograde, even cringeworthy.

Wonderfully cringeworthy.

Some people find this type of warts-and-all, reporter-as-case-study journalism cringeworthy.

Long after cigarettes are taxed out of existence and an entire generation views them as a cringeworthy historical oddity, old fogies will look back with a wry smile at memories of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup.

It was also polarising on Twitter ("Warning : #Unfriended is cringeworthy and just keep in mind, who the hell uses Skype any more?" "Just watched a whole movie via Skype, so that was incredibly frustrating").

They avoided champagne during the party's recent annual conference, and a cringeworthy photo-feature of budding Tory MPs in the Tatler (a posh people's magazine) is unlikely to be repeated.Yet prospects for a Conservative Party that reflects Britain's social mix are bleak.

It involved $5,000 of hasty cosmetic purchases at Wal-Mart, a host of non-perishable goods that the Red Cross said it did not want (but eventually accepted), and a lot of cringeworthy stagecraft.

Either they're the cheesiest, most cringeworthy public displays of affection known to mankind – probably with some sort of flash-dancing mob involved, almost certainly with a high degree of embarrassment on all sides.