cringeyadjective
also cringy uk/ˈkrɪn.dʒi//ˈkrɪn.dʒi/informalvery embarrassing:
It was a bit cringey when he got her name wrong.
cringy old school photos
More examples
- Your dad wears what he calls "jeans" but are just cringey trousers made from denim.
- It's easy to write cringey lyrics about things like love.
- The film told our story fairly and there are some very cringy things they could have put in but didn't.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Embarrassing
- awkward
- cringe
- cringe-making
- curl
- curl up and die idiom
- embarrass
- embarrassing
- information
- painful
- put sb on the spot idiom
- show
- show sb up
- spare
- spare sb's blushes idiom
- spot
- toe-curling
- too much information idiom