embarrassing
adjective
causing a feeling of embarrassment; acting as a source of embarrassment.
unembarrassing
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a word derived from
embarrassing.
Example Sentences
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Whether it meant to or not, the ceremony’s pageantry alleviated Russia’s biggest ache by conjuring up a country and a culture that were, to use a popular word that day, unembarrassing.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2014
In his yearbook John's roster of activities was scanty but unembarrassing, just as his senior-picture hair length seemed perfectly median, neither long nor short.
From Time Magazine Archive
But to make an unembarrassing movie about embarrassment is definitely an eye-opening achievement.
From Time Magazine Archive
This treats a typically American subject in a way that, by its wholeheartedness, its unembarrassed and unembarrassing vulgarity . . . synthesizes, and yet still adds to the essence of American culture .
From Time Magazine Archive
He leap-frogged over the stump on which he had been sitting as an easy unembarrassing pause for the next question.
From Cressy by Bret Harte
