embarrassing problem

Example Sentences

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Back then, the State Department had an embarrassing problem.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2020

Target’s Twitter account was hacked and used for a bitcoin scam Twitter has an embarrassing problem where people take over verified accounts and then use them to run Bitcoin scams.

From The Verge • Nov. 14, 2018

“This is an intraparty problem, and it is a seriously embarrassing problem for them,” said Bob Coffin, a former Democratic City Council member from Las Vegas.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2014

MOX is a nuclear fuel invented by governments to address the embarrassing problem of what to do with separated plutonium.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2013

That which in the one case is a matter of life and death, becomes now only an embarrassing problem, necessitating watchfulness and precaution, but by no means insoluble.

From The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)