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cringe

verb as in flinch, recoil from danger

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Fewer still can survive a replay without an element of cringe.

“I wish it hadn’t happened — it makes me cringe, it makes me unhappy, it makes me more afraid,” said Corey.

The momentum is with Rogen, who played cringe comedy to perfection on “The Studio.”

Colman, who burst into my awareness in the 2003 TV cringe comedy “Peep Show,” is fantastic throwing jabs around in costume designer PC Williams’ nouveau hipster wardrobe of bold, baggy lines.

Moss opens up about his struggles to negotiate the demands of the practical world, while Hodgetts performs brilliant critiques of the others’ work, sometimes to broad smiles, others to cringes.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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