embarrassingly
Americanadverb
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Centre-back Lisandro Martinez was outmuscled embarrassingly easily by Dominic Solanke, with goalkeeper Senne Lammens failing to read the striker's deft touch that crept in at the far corner.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
As an embarrassingly large number of readers often remind me, I own the Pulitzer Prize for Pitiful Prognostication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Now ebullient, now maudlin, Herzen can be suddenly, embarrassingly intimate—as when describing the torment of jealousy that gripped him upon learning of his wife’s brief affair with a German romantic poet, Georg Herwegh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The number of licensed toys I had as a kid for characters I really didn’t give a damn about is embarrassingly exorbitant.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
At the top of the stairs, I’m embarrassingly winded, but I refuse to let it show.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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