Words similar to cringe-making

Example sentences for: cringe-making

How can you use “cringe-making” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Siskel did indeed give the film a "marginal thumbs up"--hardly "cringe-making praise."
When something flawed but interesting such as Bulworth or The Truman Show breaks through, they overpraise it in an cringe-making way.
The cringe-making menu prose--“50 ways to love your liver”--disguises a reasonably echt core of standard deli fair [sic]: cream cheese and lox, salt beef [`corned beef'], gefilte fish--with a few nouvelle intruders like sun-dried tomato and mozarella [sic] salad.
He is wrong, too, to say of my favorable review of The Negotiator that I overpraised it in a "cringe-making way."
One sign was his hiring as one of his vice presidents a marketing specialist from Ford who said cringe-making things about making the university more "fun" until he was driven out a few weeks ago.