Crossword clues for embarrassing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
embarrassing \embarrassing\ adj.
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hard to deal with; as, greeted with an embarrassing silence.
Syn: awkward, disconcerting, off-putting, sticky, tight, unenviable.
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causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation.
Syn: mortifying, shame-making.
Wiktionary
Causing embarrassment; makes you feel shy or ashamed; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable self-consciousness. n. The action of the verb '''to embarrass'''. v
(present participle of embarrass English)
WordNet
adj. hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign" [syn: awkward, sticky, unenviable]
causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word" [syn: mortifying]
Usage examples of "embarrassing".
How embarrassing would that be, he thought in panic, if Alameda had heard him moaning her name while he was in the lower rack mere inches from her fold-down desk while she pulled an allnighter on her engineering paperwork?
The Dowager, with a magnificent disregard for the coachman and the footman, perched on the box-seat in front of her, knew no such reticence, and discoursed with great freedom on the birth of an heir to the barony, animadverting with embarrassing candour, and all the contempt of a matriarch who had brought half-a-dozen children into the world without fuss or complications, on sickly young women who fancied themselves to be ill days before their time, and ended by suffering cross births and hard labours.
It had not cured them, but an altogether embarrassing number of those darkies had gone blind, stone blind, from Atoxyl before they had had time to die from sleeping sickness.
The name Code Master was an embarrassing sobriquet Babby had announced to one and all after his success at breaking the French code during the war.
There was a sudden release, a very loud, recognizably embarrassing noise, and a burst of speed that shot the Blimp forward at twice its normal speed.
It was my way of minimizing the painful lump in my throat, staving off the embarrassing boohoos I thought were best left unexpressed.
No doubt the old cheery publicity is a little embarrassing to the two most concerned, and the old marriage customs, the singing of the bride and bridegroom to their nuptial couch, the frank jests, the country horse-play, must have fretted the souls of many a lover before Shelley, who, it will be remembered, resented the choral celebrations of his Scotch landlord and friends by appearing at his bedroom door with a brace of pistols.
Some dotty girl only has to say you did it and you trot off to chokey without asking embarrassing questions .
I might end up having to arrest you, which would be damned embarrassing for everyone involved, meaning me.
Which means that either he was working with someone elsewho knows all about the whole embarrassing business and has the moneyor someone was deliberately using his style of playacting to confuse us.
There was an embarrassing silence as Ross and I thought solemnly of a foodless week.
Lyons, for I had no further use for her at Marseilles, and she was often embarrassing.
Those who were against Hilder shied away from membership, which would have meant decisions that would be continually embarrassing.
Sunshine Junkanoo Band, named after the imported Bahamian music that influenced their intricate horns and percussion until their brilliance was unfairly splattered with the embarrassing stain of disco.
Despite the embarrassing security kerfuffle, they had arrived almost exactly at the appointed time.