cringe
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Cringe, in other words, is a subjective metric.
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2025
But Neary welcomes the label, asserting that “the more you embrace your cringe, the more freedom you’ll have. Cringe is just judgment you’re holding against your own self.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2022
Cringe is when you feel bad for the person who sent the flowers.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2022
Sjón told me that the most exciting event, for young people, was a ritual known as “Hallaerisplanid” — a word that translates, roughly, as “Hardship Square” or, more colorfully, “the Cringe Zone.”
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022
Cringe, scrape no more, ye city-fops, Leave off your feasting and fine speeches; Beat up your drums, shut up your shops, The courtiers then will kiss your breeches.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus
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