cringe

On one occasion he had recorded in documents that Rhianan expressed a wish to be deradicalised, describing her views as "cringe", but on another she felt she was "far too into this now" to change.

"If you thought Trump-Zelensky was cringe then wait until you hear me..." he quipped.

While the result is undoubtedly unnerving — since he has real power — there's also an element of cringe comedy to his yearning to be a supervillain.

Several sentences begin "as a leading technology journalist…" – cringe – which could have been scraped from an online bio.

But he also described how he uses it strategically, avoiding “things that are cringe” and anything that might risk getting him stereotyped as the Gen Z legislator.