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Embarrassing

//ɪmˈbæɹ.ə.sɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.

    "The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad."

Adjective
  1. 1
    hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment wordnet
  2. 2
    causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The action of the verb to embarrass; embarrassment. uncountable, usually

    "May 11, 1715, Robert Wodrow, letter to Mrs Wodrow It seemed, at first, to be agreed, that the King should be addressed by the Assembly; but the time of presenting, because of the present embarrassings of affairs, to be left to the Commission."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of embarrass form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, embarrass + -ing.

Etymology 2

By surface analysis, embarrass + -ing.

Etymology 3

By surface analysis, embarrass + -ing.

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