Meaning

2 senses
  1. Characterised by causing feelings of embarrassment; embarrassing.

  2. Cringing; cowardly.

    embarrassing such that it would cause cringing

Examples

6 sentences
  1. He's your typical stale, cringey know-it-all.

    Це типовий самовпевнений балабол із застарілими поглядами.

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  2. What he said to her was rather cringy.

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  3. That site just gets more and more cringy.

    deDas wird immer mehr eine Site zum Fremdschämen.

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  4. What that man suggested yesterday was embarrassing and cringy.

    deEs ist peinlich und zum Fremdschämen, was dieser Mann da gestern vorgeschlagen hat.

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  5. I just can't watch any of my old videos; it's just too cringy for me.

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Origin

From cringe + -y.

From cringe + -y.

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Forms

cringier/more cringey, cringiest/most cringey
Comparativecringier / more cringey Lesson
Superlativecringiest / most cringey Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcringily

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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