embarrassingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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He has embarrassingly conflated Iraq and Iran, and backpedaled on whether the U.S. is at war, but he has never shied away from a cable news hit.
From Salon
So, embarrassingly, Manchester United lost against 10 men for the second time in just over three months.
From BBC
First — and this is embarrassingly practical — I was a child.
From Salon
Even when I was 9, Presley struck me as embarrassingly grandiose and cheesier than Wisconsin.
He has previously described the preliminary report into the Air India crash as "woefully inadequate… embarrassingly inadequate".
From BBC
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