embarrassingly

Adverb

Meaning

causing embarrassment

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Examples

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. Henry Ford

It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman. Michael Chabon

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. Alain de Botton

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me. Kristen Bell

I am embarrassingly incompetent at football or any kind of team sport. I'm so bad it would anger you. Derren Brown

If you have never been to a live show of mine, then expect almost a full hour of great songs interspersed with hilarious anecdotes about my career, and lengthy clips from my embarrassingly successful channel 4 television shows. Derren Brown

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