"cringy" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "It involved such a cringy mix of self-indulgence and vulnerability I didn't feel equipped.",
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          "ref": "2016, Catherine Ferguson, Four Weddings and a Fiasco",
          "text": "'You're damn right I am,' declares Ron in a cringy American accent, grabbing Andrea in a showy embrace.",
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          "ref": "1917, Charles Henry Lerrigo, The boy scout treasure hunters: or, The lost treasure of Buffalo Hollow",
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          "ref": "1929, The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women",
          "text": "Possibly the thing had feelings of its own; there was no knowing. Just the little cringy sort that might inveigle itself . . .",
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        "Cringing; cowardly."
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          "text": "'You're damn right I am,' declares Ron in a cringy American accent, grabbing Andrea in a showy embrace.",
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