Mike D

Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.

American Musician

Jonathan Anderson

I try to live my life free of regrets, but I do have one style regret that makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Mum used to dress my brother and me in bright neon bike pants and big baggy t-shirts that were so long you could barely see our bike pants.

Irish Designer

Oona Chaplin

Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.

Spanish Actress

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

American Actor

Taika Waititi

My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic - that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.

New Zealander Director

Max Winkler

I've always been sort of influenced by my male relationships and that period of my life when you start to cringe and be like, 'I can't believe I wore this or that.

American Director

Sharon Maguire

Bridget Jones' is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make it a classic that you can pick up in 10 years and not cringe over.

Welsh Director

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Nigerian Writer

Hugh Skinner

I know I've said, 'Do you know what I mean?' an awful lot, and every time I've said it, I've cringed inside.

English Actor

Cringing often involves a physical movement away from something unpleasant.

Physical Reaction

Sometimes 'cringe' suggests a slight or subtle physical response to displeasure.

Subtle Distaste

'Cringe' isn't exclusively linked to fear but to any strong aversion.

Not Always Fear

'Cringe' expresses personal feelings of deep embarrassment or discomfort.

Personal Embarrassment

Cringe often occurs upon reflection, remembering a past embarrassing event.

Hindsight Cringe

Anticipating an awkward situation can make one 'cringe' in advance.

Anticipatory Cringe

The noun 'cringe' describes a strong, often immediate, emotional reaction.

Emotional Response

Seeing someone else's social faux pas or awkwardness can cause a 'cringe'.

Witnessing Awkwardness

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 And I held onto them for a year -- literally a year. And when I think back now, I can't help but cringe because of all the productivity lost and the amount of stress that I felt all because my boss and I caught each other's frustrations

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 One more. Get those brains working. Come on. That's our target shape. Third. Good! This is hard, right? Like, the reason that I asked you to do that is because you really feel your brain cringing, right?

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 Why do we cringe when we hear "Shakespeare?" If you ask me, it's usually because of his words. All those thines and thous and therefores

Cringe

To move away from something because it is unpleasant or frightening.