Sekirov Dictionary

embarrassing

/ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ/

adjective 1
noun 1
forms 3

adjective1

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making someone feel silly and uncomfortable in front of other people
- In a famously embarrassing incident in 1996, America Online's errant dirty-word filter prevented residents of the British town Scunthorpe from signing up as new customers. — 2004

noun1

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The action of the verb to embarrass; embarrassment.
- May 11, 1715, Robert Wodrow, letter to Mrs Wodrow It seemed, at first, to be agreed, that the King should be addressed by the Assembly; but the time of presenting, because of the present embarrassings of affairs, to be left to the Commission.

forms

embarrassings · more embarrassing · most embarrassing

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