"embarrassing" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

embarrassing adjetivo

embarrassing + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 53
embarrassing moment • embarrassing question • embarrassing situation • embarrassing loss • embarrassing defeat • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 11
(1) moment, allegation
Kolokacji: 2
(2) question, problem
Kolokacji: 2
(6) detail, fact, truth
Kolokacji: 3
1. embarrassing scene = wprawiając w zakłopotanie scenę embarrassing scene
2. embarrassing performance = wprawiając w zakłopotanie wykonanie embarrassing performance
3. embarrassing picture = wprawiając w zakłopotanie obraz embarrassing picture
4. embarrassing document = wprawiając w zakłopotanie dokument embarrassing document
  • It simply threw the embarrassing document down the memory hole.
  • Here is the White House once more belatedly coughing up embarrassing documents.
  • This is usually treated as a subsidiary controversy in the Whitewater story - was Nussbaum just acting overprotective and stressed, or were embarrassing documents spirited away while he stonewalled?
  • The purpose of the hearing was to determine whether the V.A. had disposed of potentially embarrassing documents sought in a lawsuit brought by the veterans group.
  • In recent weeks, the White House has given reporters potentially embarrassing documents before the Republican-controlled committees in the House and Senate could do so themselves.
  • Q. Weren't you going through your files to get rid of embarrassing documents?
  • The memorandum may not be the only internal document embarrassing to the bureau.
  • According to anonymous city employees who have been providing embarrassing documents to the newspapers, patronage in rent-controlled apartments was rampant in the later years of Mr. Chirac's mayoralty.
  • However, the Government fell when embarrassing documents about the behaviour of industry and the banks during the crisis came to light.
  • The background: when President Clinton claimed "executive privilege" to keep 3,000 embarrassing documents from investigators, Congress threatened White House Counsel Jack Quinn with criminal contempt.
5. embarrassing headline = wprawiając w zakłopotanie nagłówek embarrassing headline
6. embarrassing photo = wprawiając w zakłopotanie zdjęcie embarrassing photo
(11) scandal, accident, mishap
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + embarrassing
Kolokacji: 5
prove embarrassing • find embarrassing • consider embarrassing • avoid embarrassing • become embarrassing
adverbio + embarrassing
Kolokacji: 21
most embarrassing • potentially embarrassing • particularly embarrassing • politically embarrassing • highly embarrassing • ...
embarrassing + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
embarrassing for • embarrassing to • embarrassing in

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