embarrassing

  • 11embarrassing — adjective making you feel ashamed, nervous, or uncomfortable: The firm wants to avoid any embarrassing questions about its finances. embarrassingly adverb …

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  • 12embarrassing — adjective many embarrassing moments have been preserved on videotape Syn: humiliating, shaming, shameful, mortifying, ignominious; awkward, uncomfortable, cringeworthy, compromising; disconcerting, discomfiting, upsetting, distressing …

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  • 13embarrassing*/ — [ɪmˈbærəsɪŋ] adj making you feel nervous, ashamed, or stupid an embarrassing situation[/ex] embarrassingly adv …

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  • 14embarrassing — embarrass ► VERB 1) cause to feel awkward, self conscious, or ashamed. 2) (be embarrassed) be caused financial difficulties. DERIVATIVES embarrassed adjective embarrassing adjective embarrassment noun. ORIGIN French embarrasser, pr …

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  • 15embarrassing position — index plight, predicament Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 16embarrassing situation — index imbroglio, plight Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 17Embarrassing cheque — The Embarrassing Cheque is a confidence trick which may also be an urban legend.The scam was supposedly performed by a company selling pornography or other sex aids and trading under a highly explicit name (e.g., The Anal Sex And Fetish… …

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  • 18embarrassing — 1. noun The action of the verb to embarrass. 2. adjective causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self consciousness Syn: awkward …

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  • 19embarrassing — Synonyms and related words: awkward, baffling, bewildering, bothering, chastening, confounding, confusing, crushing, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, distracting, distressing, disturbing, enigmatic, humbling, humiliating, humiliative,… …

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  • 20embarrassing — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. awkward, uncomfortable, disconcerting, difficult, disturbing, confusing, distracting, bewildering, puzzling, rattling, perplexing, delicate, touchy, distressing, upsetting, discomforting, discomfiting, ticklish,… …

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