embarrass

Example Sentences

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“I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me,” Attia wrote.

From Los Angeles Times

And then one of the schools made him repeat fifth grade, which was embarrassing because he didn’t need to repeat, but they insisted he hadn’t completed enough days to advance to sixth grade.

From Literature

“I mean… just in case,” I said, embarrassed.

From Literature

There have been internal spats, members booted out and an embarrassing leak of an online council meeting.

From BBC

“To embarrass them, yes, but it’s to embarrass them to stop them and others from engaging from this conduct,” Hochman said.

From Los Angeles Times