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adj. That causes one to cringe with embarrassment; embarrassing

"The word cringeworthy was used above not in relation to the Heaps Good campaign but the utterly humiliating efforts by our former Premier Dean Brown to rekindle a sense of hope after Tim Marcus Clarke and John Bannon presided over the misplacement of several billion dollars."

snorter    ealier    thank-yous    dumbstruck    tir