How to Use cringeworthy in a Sentence

cringeworthy

adjective
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  • For more of their cringeworthy encounter, watch the clip above.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2017
  • But the cringeworthy scene in the Oval Office was merely a prelude for what was to come.
    — Bess Levin, The Hive, 17 Mar. 2017
  • And then a bunch of articles came out and said, 'That's so cringeworthy.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2022
  • Jaylen Brown’s high-school class project dunks were cringeworthy.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The effect is odd at best, and painfully cringeworthy at worst.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Then a bunch of articles came out and said, 'That's so cringeworthy.
    — Megan Thomas, CNN, 28 June 2022
  • Most of the acts will probably be less-than-stellar, but even a cringeworthy show makes a unique way to pass an evening.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 26 Mar. 2020
  • But none may have been quite as cringeworthy as Tuesday's.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Some who saw the video on social media described it as bizarre and even cringeworthy.
    — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Compare it to some of Anakin and Padme's cringeworthy romantic lines in the later films.
    — EW.com, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Each moment is more cringeworthy than the next and distracts from his core message.
    — Kenneth L. Khachigian, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
  • There are a few things in the show that haven’t aged well, including a bit of cringeworthy ethnic humor toward the end.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
  • And if his first encounter with Aniston wasn’t cringeworthy enough, Rudd said his final day on set with the actress was just as bad.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • This season has certainly seen its share of awkward moments, but this might be the most cringeworthy one of all.
    — Jamie Ballard, Good Housekeeping, 15 May 2018
  • Pence has a long and often cringeworthy record of devotion.
    — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Here are some of the most awkward, cringeworthy moments from their time together.
    — Beatrice Dupuy, Teen Vogue, 26 Apr. 2018
  • As for Golding, his most cringeworthy audition was for a commercial as well — one where he was asked to dance.
    — Nigel Smith, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • But what's most striking is the ending, where Swift pokes fun at her various personas and cringeworthy moments over the years.
    — Megan Friedman, Cosmopolitan, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Ernie Johnson, arguably the best studio host of his time, was caught in a cringeworthy moment of product placement.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The year had a nice mix of your basic gaffes, your general bizarreness, and your completely cringeworthy moments.
    — Jimmy Traina, SI.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Her icy glare, made famous to a new generation on The Crown, is captured in the cringeworthy photographs.
    — Meagan Fredette, refinery29.com, 14 July 2018
  • Here are the most cringeworthy moments of Fyre Festival's promo past.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The most cringeworthy intro of the night goes to Ricky, a 28-year-old pharmaceutical rep from Miami.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 July 2024
  • Thursday Look, we were all teenagers once, filled with enough angst to write pages on pages of cringeworthy diary entries, poems, love letters, artwork and songs.
    — Danika Worthington, The Know, 12 June 2019
  • Some of those attacks have been more successful than others, but most are more cringeworthy than anything.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 14 Mar. 2022
  • But few can recount as many cringeworthy attempts as Riley Collins.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Here are seven of the most cringeworthy football challenges online.
    — SI.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Ellie Nash herself, Stacey Farber, agrees that their extreme naïveté should have been cringeworthy.
    — Shannon Carlin, Vulture, 16 July 2021
  • Here are some of the best, funniest, more noteworthy or cringeworthy moments of the week leading into the Monday night game in the Superdome.
    — AL.com, 31 Dec. 2017
  • This is a series about a cringeworthy Gatsby figure who refuses to cringe.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024

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