embarrassingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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This remained true for an embarrassingly long time — including several years when I was already being paid to write about food.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
She was rusty, and she appeared to wear down physically by the end, but she wasn’t embarrassingly slow or off with her timing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Charles laughed, albeit slightly embarrassingly, when Trump said in a speech at the White House that his Scottish-born mother had had a crush on the then-prince.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
The arithmetic that made counterdrone technology urgent is embarrassingly simple.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
But what came out of my mouth was something else, and it was embarrassingly stupid.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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