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EMBARRASSING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
Example:
in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign
Synonyms:
awkward; embarrassing; sticky; unenviable
Classified under:
Similar:
difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation
Example:
it was mortifying to know he had heard every word
Synonyms:
embarrassing; mortifying
Classified under:
Similar:
unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb embarrass
Context examples:
Scraps of popular songs were chorused with an enthusiasm which was a strange prelude to a scientific lecture, and there was already a tendency to personal chaff which promised a jovial evening to others, however embarrassing it might be to the recipients of these dubious honors.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
