verb

• (intransitive) To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
  "He cringed as the bird collided with the window."
• (intransitive, figuratively) To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
  "I'm cringing watching this easily Blizzard- or Square Enix-worthy new trailer for Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls Online. Not because it's bad — it's a deftly rendered slice of CGI. But it must have cost a fortune. It makes me want to say "Spend the money on knocking the game out of the park, please, not the frippery, Bethesda." But oh what frippery."
• (intransitive) To bow or crouch in servility.
  "[I]f they keepe their wits, yet they are accompted fooles by reaſon of their carriage, becauſe they cannot ride a horſe, which euery Clowne can doe; ſalute and court a Gentlewoman, carue at table, cringe and make congies, which euery common ſwaſher can doe, [...]"
• (intransitive, figuratively) To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
  "Here the beggar accoſts me; had I appeared as himſelf, he had aſked nothing: but now he uncovers, he cringeth, he cries for relief."

noun

• (countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
  "He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk."
• (countable, figuratively) An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
• (countable, British, dialectal) A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
• (uncountable, slang, derogatory) Things, particularly online content, which would cause an onlooker to cringe from secondhand embarrassment.
  "Bro... you just posted cringe"

adj

• (slang, derogatory) Synonym of cringeworthy or uncool, inducing awkwardness or secondhand embarrassment.
  "Brands trying to appeal to young people with memes is the most cringe thing ever."

intj

• (slang, derogatory) Stated in response to something cringeworthy.