Dictionary
peinlich
Meaning
- woeful, hurtful
- penal, applying criminal law, having to do with jurisprudence competent for capital punishment
- pertaining to or containing torture
- embarrassing, cringeworthy, or otherwise awkward, perverse, adverse, untoward
- (obsolete) crotchety, truculent
- meticulous
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpaɪ̯nˌlɪç/
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