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
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
While no one will pick up Infamous and start faxing their friends on the Booker Prize committee, Collins has succeeded in turning out an entertaining and, more to the point, largely unembarrassing piece of fiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Albert himself might have objected to any emotional expression that was too clearly to be seen; but he would have welcomed one which, cloaked in an unembarrassing obscurity, might at least have been felt.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
