Definition: 1. Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment. 2. Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation.
Use 'embarrassing' in a sentence:
1. Is the question simple or embarrassing?
2. People can hear it and it's really embarrassing on the bus and the underground.
3. One of my most embarrassing moments was when I had a Chinese-American employee put in a request to take time off to celebrate Chinese New Year.
4. We went inside the team's dressing room moments after one of the most embarrassing defeats in their history.
5. But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.
6. Substitutions of one gesture for the other often create not only humorous but also embarrassing moments.
7. I had one of my most embarrassing moments in panto in Nottingham.
8. "It can be very hard to forget embarrassing moments," says Donohue.
9. Together, the old master and the young beginner changed an embarrassing situation into a wonderfully creative experience.
10. In spite of every precaution, the conversation among the young people became a little embarrassing at times.
11. That can be a bit embarrassing.
12. For example, are you hoping to get through a business lunch without embarrassing yourself, or are you thinking about how fascinating the conversation might be?
13. Chances are that if you know about her problems with hair sprouting out in embarrassing places, then so does she.
14. In an embarrassing climb-down, the Home Secretary lifted the deportation threat.
15. A brief but embarrassing silence ensued.
16. An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.
17. The implication was obvious: vote for us or it will be very embarrassing for you.
18. I think there will be some embarrassing data and it will vary from country to country.
19. Embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.
20. It was an embarrassing situation, but they carried it off well.
21. She could threaten to play her trump card, an autobiography of embarrassing disclosures.
22. He tried to evade the embarrassing question.
23. Finding them when the software product has already been put on the market can be quite embarrassing.
24. Embarrassing questions cause discomfort.
25. Today's council sessions have been carefully stage-managed to avoid embarrassing disclosures or signs of internal dissent.
26. Unemployment is financially terrifying, psychologically embarrassing and you know that support is minimal and extraordinarily hard to get.
27. The speech was deeply embarrassing to Cabinet ministers.
28. The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS.
29. Had we consulted the website of the Emily Post Institute, this embarrassing breach of etiquette could have been avoided.
30. That was an embarrassing situation for me.
31. 'It's rather embarrassing,' he began, and paused.
32. It was embarrassing and sad to see this man reduced to a mumbling wreck.
33. I hoped he would not connect me with that now-embarrassing review I'd written seven years earlier.
34. The spectacle of the former naval officers washing their dirty linen in public was distinctly embarrassing.
35. The Senator made an embarrassing retreat from his earlier position.
36. His people came up with a load of embarrassing information.
37. Men find it embarrassing to be honest.
38. He made an embarrassing gaffe at the convention last weekend.
39. You rescued me from an embarrassing situation.
40. It's embarrassing the extremes he'll go to in order to impress his boss.
41. He has put the Bonn government in an embarrassing position.
42. It was so embarrassing having to sing in public.
43. Attempts to find civilian volunteers have met with embarrassing failure.
44. He saw the publication of this book as an embarrassing invasion of his privacy.
45. We have all been in similar embarrassing situations.
46. The report is likely to prove highly embarrassing to the government.
