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toe-curling
adjective
- informal.causing feelings of acute embarrassment
Derived Forms
- ˈ³Ù´Ç±ð-ËŒ³¦³Ü°ù±ô¾±²Ô²µ±ô²â, adverb
Example Sentences
Sabrina offered her opinion with a toe-curling shriek.
The messages have illustrated, in sometimes toe-curling levels of detail, the way in which government figures communicate - described as "teenage with LOLS" by one Tory MP.
“For him, a caption was a toe-curling admission of failure,†said David Leopold, the Al Hirschfeld Foundation creative director who curated the special exhibition.
The Telegraph said TalkTV got off to an "impressive start", but the Independent described the interview with Trump as a "toe-curling embarrassment".
The Telegraph's Ed Power found the sequence "horribly toe-curling", describing it as "a slice of Ant and Dec-level goofing that was unforgivably indulgent".
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