Meaning of cringily | Babel Free

Definitions

In a cringey manner.

Examples

“They exulted when they opened their copies of the Hahnemannian to read therein that Dr. Gould was “a tallow candle going out with a bad smell,” “not honest,” "not truthful,” and that he “cringily begs for mercy.””

“Then, dancing dishonours having been equally shared by a fatarmed partially dusky hoor and a tiny earnest negroid tart (both immeasurably under wraps) emerges now 1 song, beginning and rebeginning with a moist dark tone; cringily climbing (tumbling; crazily, upyearning) collapsing: smoothly, and languidly, building…”

“THE TOURIST TRAP (T). Repeat of the cringily captivating series in which candid cameras reveal how holidaymakers from different countries react to a series of provocations, raging from petty larceny to full-frontal nudity.”

“You know the truth: you’re no different to that ageing hippy pal of your dad’s who once barged into your bedroom while you and your mates were smoking a joint and cringily demanded: ‘Hey man, pass the vibes.’”

“All the way with Paige Michalchuk doesn t have quite the same ring to it, but the new version is just as cringily awesome as the original and covers the same breadth of PSA-worthy topics at least, in its Canadian incarnation.”

“First, there’s NBC’s hit comedy The Office. NBC has already wisely figured out that the subject matter of the show – the cringily familiar misadventures of a pack of miserable office workers – naturally attracts an audience of miserable office workers;”

“Her weatherbeaten face brightens at the sight of the pair of us, whom she always calls, just a little cringily, ‘my accomplished daughter and her lovely Nick’.”

“Demi Moore’s recent self-taken Twitter snaps of herself in a bikini (inset) were cringily unnecessary – she is known for little else than looking unfeasibly good these days; no need to overdo it.”

“Will just won’t accept that Lauren fancies Simon, and hangs around cringily in the background – even when she invites Simon to join her for their free time and they share a goodbye nuzzle.”

“So far there had been a ranty poem about war that had gone on for twenty-two minutes, a cringily erotic poem from a woman who looked old enough to be her grandma, and now this.”

““Okay,” I say, “and did you forget that once you announce the most senior officer on deck you don’t announce anyone else?” “I um, yeah uh,” he fumbles cringily, “it’s just I’m, I guess I thought-“”

“Oliver’s little lectures are dotted with plenty of snarky asides and cringily millennial-friendly pop culture similes (the United States uncovering FIFA soccer corruption was “like finding out that Ke$ha arrested a group of bankers involved in commodities fraud!”), but they get results.”

“He seems to know where he is in the professional ecosystem – there to join in but not to cringily attempt to be the last man standing, which means they like and respect him.”

“Samantha evaluated the size of my body thoughtfully, then proceeded to elicit donations for my going-out attire from Alison, the lone Chicagoan female, who also, as my mother would say, “carried her weight in her hips.” I thought of this expression cringily, as though gravity were wrapping around our bodies like a rope.”

“As the night-take-backers applaud Steve, Laura runs out, and he follows to thank her for not delivering him to what he’d previously, cringily, called a “lynch mob.””

“To be totally and probably cringily honest, I was scared.”

“I cringily jump up and down a few times to get the douchechills out of my spine.”

“Mostly early nineties dance, it’s a collection Will’s picked up from boot sales and eBay. It’s the music his mum and dad were into in what they cringily refer to as their ‘raving days’, which they were still listening to years after its time, providing the soundtrack to long car journeys when Will was a kid.”

“What if I did meet someone and things got frisky and he was like, ‘You like what?’ The thought was too cringily awful to contemplate, never mind how sad it made me feel.”

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