Maybe next fall we will see the ugliest and most cringeworthy presidential contest in the history of the United States of America.
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Cringeworthy
//ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒˌwɝð.i//
Synonyms for "cringeworthy" (17 found)
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39 translations across 19 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- քինջ adj (that causes one to cringe)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- əttökən adj (that causes one to cringe)
Bulgarian
1 entries- криндж adj (that causes one to cringe)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 令人尷尬的 /令人尴尬的 adj (that causes one to cringe)
Czech
1 entries- hrozně nepříjemný adj (that causes one to cringe)
Danish
1 entries- tåkrummende adj (that causes one to cringe)
Dutch
2 entries- tenenkrommend adj (that causes one to cringe)
- tenenkrullend adj (that causes one to cringe)
Esperanto
2 entries- hontiga adj (that causes one to cringe)
- hontinda adj (that causes one to cringe)
Finnish
3 entries- kiusaannuttava adj (that causes one to cringe)
- myötähäpeää aiheuttava adj (that causes one to cringe)
- nolo adj (that causes one to cringe)
French
2 entries- embarrassant adj (that causes one to cringe)
- malaisant adj (that causes one to cringe)
German
4 entries- beschämend adj (that causes one to cringe)
- blamabel adj (that causes one to cringe)
- erschütternd adj (that causes one to cringe)
- peinlich adj (that causes one to cringe)
Hungarian
2 entries- ciki adj (that causes one to cringe)
- kínos adj (that causes one to cringe)
Icelandic
2 entries- kjánahrollur adj (that causes one to cringe)
- pínlegur adj (that causes one to cringe)
Italian
1 entries- imbarazzante adj (that causes one to cringe)
Japanese
1 entries- 痛い adj (that causes one to cringe)
Korean
1 entries- 오글오글 adj (that causes one to cringe)
Polish
3 entries- cringe'owy adj (that causes one to cringe)
- zawstydzający adj (that causes one to cringe)
- żenujący adj (that causes one to cringe)
Russian
1 entries- стрёмный adj (that causes one to cringe)
Spanish
4 entries- dar alipori adj (that causes one to cringe)
- dar grima adj (that causes one to cringe)
- de alipori adj (that causes one to cringe)
- de grima adj (that causes one to cringe)
Sample sentences
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Her performance was painfully cringeworthy.
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This movie is an unwatchable, cringeworthy piece of shit.
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The sensationalism of this newspaper is cringeworthy.
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