embarrasses
- present tense form of embarrass (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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I guess he is about 80, but the answer he gives embarrasses me.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025
Nothing embarrasses Bella Baxter, the toddler-brained dervish of Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
It does not help and often confuses them, not to mention embarrasses them.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
"The seizure of envelopes with money in the office of a person I chose hurts me... embarrasses me before the Portuguese and I have a duty to apologise," Costa said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2023
It is a meal he knows it has taken his mother over a day to prepare, and yet the amount of effort embarrasses him.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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