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What is the adjective for cringings?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb cringe which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

cringy
  1. Cringeworthy.
  2. Cringing; cowardly.
  3. Examples:
      4. “Some of them are able and competent, but the representative type is timid, cringy and conservative.”
      “Along with raising a boy, who is heavily into me, sexually, I also have multiple partners, who make my life as cringy as possible along with my pervert of a son.”
      “Fellows who once had salt in their blood and steel in their nerves, who were four square on their feet and as independent as all hell, have gone cringy and fearful.”
cringeworthy
  1. (colloquial) That causes one to cringe with embarrassment; embarrassing.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cringey, awkward, embarrassing, agonising, agonizing, excruciating, uncomfortable, disconcerting, cringe-making, winceworthy, humiliating, sensitive, delicate, thorny, tricky, sticky, unpleasant, difficult, ticklish, flustering, discomfiting, problematic, knotty, hairy, compromising, dicey, dodgy, uneasy, vexatious, troublesome, disturbing, touchy, restless, tense, nervous, anxious, perplexing, demeaning, trying, distressing, degrading, inconvenient, embarrassed, discountenancing, untimely, discomposing, problematical, painful, gnarly, incommodious … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The rehearsal scenes saw him perform the obligatory and cringeworthy tortured-genius-kicks-chair-over routine.”
      “The performance was at times mildly amusing, at times cringeworthy and on one occasion convincing.”
      “Sometimes he can come up with a good quip on the spot, but other than that, he is pretty cringeworthy.”
cringesome
  1. Characterised or marked by cringing; causing one to cringe
  2. Examples:
      3. “I was going to spare you the cringesome details of the next ten minutes but you ought to hear them, really, as it gives you some insight into what really goes on in my head.”
cringemaking
  1. Inducing cringing; embarrassing.
cringey
  1. Alternative form of cringy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cringeworthy, awkward, embarrassing, agonising, agonizing, excruciating, uncomfortable, disconcerting, cringe-making, humiliating, sensitive, delicate, thorny, tricky, sticky, difficult, ticklish, problematic, unpleasant, knotty, flustering, hairy, discomfiting, compromising, uneasy, dicey, dodgy, vexatious, troublesome, disturbing, toe-curling, winceworthy, restless, tense, nervous, anxious, perplexing, demeaning, trying, distressing, degrading, inconvenient, embarrassed, discountenancing, untimely, discomposing, problematical, painful, gnarly, incommodious … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “It always led to a cringey situation because he would attend them in character, with his ring gear on, which was always awkward to watch.”
      “He did not in the least resemble him, for instead of being a cringey weakling, he was big and strong and hard.”
      “Someone put mistletoe on the tube yesterday and some of the results were so cringey...so cringey.”
cringier
  1. comparative form of cringy: more cringy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. awkwarder, more cringeworthy, more embarrassing, more agonizing, more excruciating, more uncomfortable, more disconcerting, more humiliating, more sensitive, more delicate, thornier, trickier, stickier, more ticklish, difficulter, unpleasanter, more flustering, more discomfiting, knottier, more uneasy, hairier, more compromising, dicier, dodgier, more vexatious, more troublesome, more disturbing, more toe-curling, more winceworthy, more nervous, tenser, more restless, more anxious, more perplexing, more demeaning, more degrading, more trying, more distressing, more embarrassed, more inconvenient, more discomposing, more untimely, more problematical, painfuller, gnarlier, more exasperating, more incommodious, more shameful, touchier, pricklier … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “At least rural candidates left the standing-room-only caucus meeting with some snappy quotes, though some were cringier than others.”
      “He thinks it's hysterical but anyone with half a brain knows it's cringier than a four year old's birthday party.”
      “But it will definitely make you forget the stress of revision for a bit, even if it's just to laugh at some of the cringier moments.”
cringiest
  1. superlative form of cringy: most cringy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. awkwardest, most cringeworthy, most embarrassing, most agonizing, most excruciating, most uncomfortable, most disconcerting, most humiliating, most sensitive, most delicate, thorniest, trickiest, stickiest, difficultest, most ticklish, unpleasantest, most flustering, most discomfiting, knottiest, most uneasy, hairiest, most compromising, diciest, dodgiest, most vexatious, most troublesome, most disturbing, most toe-curling, most winceworthy, tensest, most nervous, most restless, most anxious, most perplexing, most demeaning, most trying, most distressing, most degrading, most inconvenient, most embarrassed, most problematical, most discomposing, painfullest, most untimely, gnarliest, most exasperating, most incommodious, most shameful, touchiest, prickliest … more
cringed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of cringe
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shrank, shrunk, shrunken, recoiled, flinched, blenched, quailed, shied, cowered, winced, crouched, dodged, ducked, blanched, squinched, started, shuddered, got cold feet, gotten cold feet, drew back, drawn back, pulled back, shied away, quoke, quaked, faltered, wavered, balked, baulked, backed away, trembled, swerved, shivered, shirked, shrunk back, backed off, retreated, groveled, grovelled, shrunk away, quivered, squirmed, demurred, jumped, reeled, shaken, shook, jumped back, shrunken back, shrank back … more
cringing
  1. present participle of cringe
  2. Synonyms:
      3. shrinking, recoiling, flinching, blenching, quailing, shying, cowering, wincing, crouching, dodging, ducking, blanching, squinching, starting, shuddering, getting cold feet, drawing back, pulling back, shying away, quaking, faltering, wavering, balking, baulking, backing away, trembling, swerving, shaking, shivering, shirking, shrinking back, backing off, retreating, groveling, grovelling, shrinking away, quivering, squirming, demurring, jumping, reeling, withdrawing, jumping back, taking fright, showing fear, falling back, recoiling from, flinching from, jerking, jolting … more
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