Cringe is ultimately an emotional and physical response: A secondhand embarrassment to a situation or experience, and you know it when you feel it. It can be used as a verb, an expression we wore on ...

“Cringe” has been used in The Times to describe feelings of embarrassment, discomfort and a style of comedy that makes use of both. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or ...

One generation’s chic is another generation’s cringe. “Sex and the City” started streaming on Netflix last spring, making the show, which aired its final episode on HBO in 2004, easily accessible to a ...