cringe-making in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for cringe-making in the English»French Dictionary

cringe-making [Am ˈkrɪndʒˌmeɪkɪŋ] ADJ

cringe-making speech, comment:

cringe-making

à te faire rentrer sous terre

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

At a guess, he'd have thought it cringe-making to talk about himself in this scenario.

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There was a cringe-making moment when we both tried to exit first, but then he nodded slightly and beckoned for me to go.

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In fact, he wasn't even the most cringe-making.

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Some pre-pubescent memories are just too cringe-making to revisit.

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A cringe-making comedy giant, whose recent movie outing proved he still has legs.

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Cue the most nauseating and cringe-making display of perpetuated sterotypes, it will ever be anyone's misfortune to see - or pay for.

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Is there anything quite has cringe-making as mutton dressed as lamb?

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How we laughed then and how cringe-making it seems now.

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But what was so awful about it was its cringe-making attitude of groveling subservience to the secular order.

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We never hesitated to tell each other stuff too intimate or cringe-making to share with the rest of the office.

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