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cringe-making

cringe-making is the alternative form of cringemaking.

Meaning of cringemaking

Adjective

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

Forms of cringe-making

comparativemore cringe-making
superlativemost cringe-making

Questions about cringe-making

What is cringe-making the alternative form of?
Cringe-making is the alternative form of cringemaking.

Words near cringe-making in the dictionary

  1. cringe
  2. cringe comedies
  3. cringe comedy
  4. cringe culture
  5. cringe de la cringe
  6. cringe-making
  7. cringe-makingly
  8. cringe-o-meter
  9. cringe-o-meters
  10. cringe-worthier
  11. cringe-worthiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cringe-making (page history and authors); cringemaking (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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