cringeworthy , also: cringe-inducing , also: cringe-making

His last one I didn't think was half bad, despite some pretty obnoxious and cringeworthy public(/online) behavior around that time.

There is surely a big gap between cringeworthy attempts at seduction and harassment?

Indeed the rejection was cringeworthy to watch because it's every man's nightmare when he prepares to ask for his girlfriend's hand in marriage.

It's bad enough she had Pierce Brosnan making cringeworthy puns.

Being totally anti-social, I despise going to the hairdressers and having to make cringeworthy small talk.

Most cringeworthy moment at a wedding?

They have a horrible nineteen fifties feel and the acceptance speeches are legendarily cringeworthy.

Read on to see our selection of the most cringeworthy, clichéd - and common - tourist photographs...

In light of all those cringeworthy films drooling over the monarchy/establishment, its not really a surprise that it gets good ratings.

What an utterly cringeworthy buffoon.

The Liverpool statement was cringeworthy - "Suarez has played in multicultural team" - so what?!

And a cringeworthy moment with Larry David... Isn't that exactly the way an encounter with him should be?

She knew my sensibilities and she knew this had to be funny, or it could fall into what Entertainment Weekly called "potentially cringeworthy material".

I'm sick to death of these embarrassingly drawn-out, cringeworthy voting shows, be it Strictly, X-factor, cooking programmes or whatever.

But whenever they tried to rock out, it was so cringeworthy, I wanted to shoot out my TV screen, Elvis-style.

As for culture, there's an intellectual snobbery towards Australia as there is America and that is more cringeworthy than any tourism advert.

From rippling torsos to bouffant hairdos, 2012's crop of cringeworthy celebrity calendars are reviewed by Becky Pugh.

He suddenly remembered one now cringeworthy occasion where he had talked about how he would put together his ideal female from the different body parts of famous net stars.

Additionally, the show was criticised for turning the brothers into a comical farce by incorporating uncharacteristic humour into their dialect, which was described as "cringeworthy".

In 1993, Brough appeared in the New Zealand sitcom Melody Rules (widely regarded as a poor programme, being described as "cringeworthy".)

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The cringeworthy footage shows the elegantly dressed woman appearing more than a little worse for wear as she alights from the late-night train at Barnsley station, South Yorks.

Their early stuff is cringeworthy, wanna hold ur hand/ penny lane etc and pepper sounds exactly like what it is, a bunch of scousers on acid with a little musical ability.

That Parkinson interview had some cringeworthy moments - at the time he was still a member of the Nation of Islam, as opposed to Islam proper, and he said some things that weren't brilliant.

Don't know any really bad entertainment, but I did enjoy Mr T's Worlds craziest fools when he showed clips (which are cringeworthy anyway) of people proposing to their intendeds at Basketball/Baseball games or with huge audiences....and getting turned down!!!