embarrassingly

[em-bar-uhs-ing-lee]

adverb

1. in a way or to a degree that embarrasses, especially by causing confusion, shame, or anxiety.

Example Sentences

There’s a reason why I can never beat Autumn in one-on-one basketball; my endurance is, and has always been, embarrassingly low.

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For example, you know far more than Lord Fredrick does about the curse upon the Ashtons, for he thinks it is merely going to make his baby embarrassingly wolfish during the full moon.

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He believes the preliminary report was "woefully inadequate... embarrassingly inadequate".

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The embarrassingly effusive praise for men she’s using for power.

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American private art schools, meanwhile—members of Talking Heads attended Harvard and the Rhode Island School of Design—coded their graduates as embarrassingly affluent.

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