embarrassing

How To Use embarrassing In A Sentence

• It was so embarrassing, I had to get up in front of hundreds of people and collect this award.
• As my mom drove me home, after an embarrassing shower of kisses at the bus station, she chattered on and on about how boring her life was without me.
• IT'S a well-known fact that footballers have embarrassing tastes in music. The Sun
• Being caught in the middle of someone else's family argument is hideous and embarrassing.
• From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline 'An American Revolutionary' was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the 'Why We Fight' black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. "What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
• Though I was on friendlier, more relaxed and affectionate terms with my fellow western-New Yorker John Gardner, who'd published an early short story of mine titled "The Death of Mrs. Sheer" in his literary magazine "MSS" -- and who regarded me, somewhat embarrassingly, as a "major American writer" -- like himself -- it can't be said that John Gardner was a mentor of mine either. Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine
• He drinks too much at dinner and makes an embarrassing comment in their company. The Times Literary Supplement
• It was an embarrassing gaffe by any standards. Times, Sunday Times
• There have been a few teething problems, sorted out by a computer whiz-kid friend of my husband and - embarrassingly - my eight-year-old daughter.
• “Aussie slang: drongo – a stupid, inept, awkward or embarrassing person, a dimwit or slow-witted person” A Dumbass By Any Other Name | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass!