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Acutely embarrassing and stupidly corny right? Ew! (12)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cringeworthy

'acutely embarrassing' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'stupidly corny right? ew' is the wordplay.
'stupidly' indicates anagramming the letters (a stupid ordering of the letters).
'corny'+'right'+'ew'='cornyrightew'
'cornyrightew' with letters rearranged gives 'CRINGEWORTHY'.

'and' is the link.

(Other definitions for cringeworthy that I've seen before include "Causing embarrassment" , "Severely embarrassing" , "Acutely embarrassing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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