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embarrassing English
Meaning embarrassing meaning
What does embarrassing mean?
embarrassing
Synonyms embarrassing synonyms
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Topics embarrassing topics
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What words describe something that causes someone to feel embarrassed?
Examples embarrassing examples
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Simple sentences
Stop it. You're embarrassing me.
Stop embarrassing me.
It's an embarrassing question.
How embarrassing!
I will tell you what love is. It's very embarrassing.
If your stomach growls in the middle of a test, that's pretty embarrassing.
She let slip that she had found out about her brother's embarrassing little secret.
It's really embarrassing.
Oh boy, that's embarrassing.
That's embarrassing.
Please don't say anything embarrassing.
It's deeply embarrassing.
Fancy forgetting my glasses, it's so embarrassing.
You're embarrassing her.
You're embarrassing me.
Mom! Stop! You're embarrassing me.
We're embarrassing Tom.
It's embarrassing.
That was embarrassing.
It was an embarrassing fiasco.
It was a little embarrassing.
Movie subtitles
Oh, come on, this is embarrassing.
Oh, this is rather embarrassing.
So embarrassing.
I just had the most embarrassing experience.
But wouldn't it be embarrassing, all of us there.
You've placed me in a most embarrassing position.
It's too embarrassing.
I have something even more embarrassing to tell you.
Young lady, you don't seem to realize. you've placed me in a very embarrassing position. Really?
Everybody has begun to notice you're not there and it's embarrassing the family.
Really, Tony, this is most embarrassing.
This is all very embarrassing.
It would have been very embarrassing for people of my sort. to wear low-cut gowns in the old Russia.
Won't it be rather embarrassing for a Soviet envoy. to disclose the circumstances under which she lost them?
Most embarrassing!
It's most embarrassing.
Don't you think, Doctor? -Yes, very embarrassing, master.
Young lady, you don't seem to realize. you've placed me in a very embarrassing position.
An embarrassing question.
This is so embarrassing. Oh, dear.
It's sort of embarrassing.
I'm sorry, Count, it is most embarrassing, but the lady you brought with you. is spreading communistic propaganda in the powder room.
I mean, it is embarrassing.
It's a high-class affair, so it would be embarrassing not to go in a nice kimono.
It was actually embarrassing. Sort of anticlimactic, really.
Frankly, I'm afraid, sir, that we may get involved in another embarrassing situation.
This is very embarrassing.
It is a question of my honour. It is very embarrassing.
News and current affairs
A similarly embarrassing lack of understanding about how the whole system works exists in every case.
As frustrating and embarrassing as the last several weeks have been, it could have been much worse.
Now, California faces either an embarrassing federal bailout or a prolonged period of rule by judges, who under California law have the power to vacate labor agreements, abrogate contracts, and generally restructure the state's financial commitments.
Indeed, it is widely believed that President Jiang and his confidante Zeng Qinghong obsessively gather politically embarrassing evidence against corrupt officials in order to blackmail these officials into subservience.
Tribal emotions are embarrassing, and dangerous when given free reign.
Subsequently, the energized judiciary continued ruling against government decisions, embarrassing the government - especially its intelligence agencies.
The issue is embarrassing in Germany, fraught with political and moral landmines.
FRANKFURT - Critics of the US Federal Reserve are having a field day with embarrassing revelations of its risk assessments on the eve of the financial crisis.
There have been embarrassing security lapses at nuclear facilities, and sensitive material is often inadequately secured.
The Bush administration is now left in an embarrassing position.
The so-called parapolítica scandals have rocked Uribe's government, forcing the resignation of some cabinet ministers, and embarrassing others, including the president himself.
A saving element in British politics is that such appeals are usually considered embarrassing.
STOCKHOLM - There is little doubt that the embarrassing spectacle of the trial of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko - and her recent arrest on contempt charges during the proceedings - is causing great damage to her country.
President Barack Obama's administration suffered a stinging (and highly embarrassing) defeat.
Then came the riots in Tibet, which caught the government off guard, followed by embarrassing protests over China's Olympic torch relay in several Western and Asian countries.
Nor do politicians care to order banks to raise more capital from private sources - this would be too embarrassing for all involved, because it would expose the full extent of the folly so far.
But that would destroy the useful together with the embarrassing or irrelevant.
Moreover, since early September, the potential benefits of cooperation now include avoiding an embarrassing credit-rating downgrade next year if medium-term fiscal reform does not materialize.
He is upsetting allies in Asia, embarrassing the US, and making bad relations with China even worse. Like Putin, he is driving himself and his country into further isolation for entirely domestic reasons.
Anonymous senior diplomats in Brussels were quoted as regarding Serbia's application to be too early; otherwise, an embarrassing silence prevailed.
China's response to the SARS epidemic suggests an almost automatic defensiveness when the outside world seems to impinge on it or threaten it in some potentially harmful or embarrassing way.
Invariably, predictions will sometimes fail, which could lead to dangerous, or at least embarrassing, situations.
FLORENCE: Faced with an embarrassing strike by Air France pilots during the World Cup, the French government purchased labor peace by, among other things, offering striking pilots a big ownership stake in their company.
When he embarked on his most recent campaign for re-election, even his own supporters and constituents could not hide their disgust at his egomaniacal behavior and his wife's embarrassing public conduct.
It ended the career of Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of the General Staff and a hardliner of the hardest sort, whose inconsistent and unconvincing efforts to justify the downing of the plane proved deeply embarrassing to the Kremlin.