cringemaking

comparative more cringemaking · superlative most cringemaking

1. Inducing cringing; embarrassing.

   The couple’s attempt to consummate their marriage, predictably enough, ends in an embarrassing encounter that will snowball into a far more dire emotional exchange, all of which is depicted by Mr. McEwan in unsavory, voyeuristic terms that are as cringemaking as they are graphic.

   2007 June 1, Michiko Kakutani, “Past and Present: Imperfect, Tense”, in New York Times