Example Sentences

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Any punishment will be embarrassing for Michael Matheson, and it further reduces his chance of returning to government any time soon.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024

We suspect that answers to these questions will be embarrassing and that agency heads will resist committees’ oversight demands.

From Slate • May 10, 2019

Such harsh international criticism will be embarrassing for the government, whose air pollution plans have already been ruled illegally poor twice.

From The Guardian • Sep. 10, 2017

Moreover, it will be embarrassing not to welcome foreign bigwigs.

From Economist • Apr. 28, 2016

If you delay it will be embarrassing for me.

From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills